JAKARTA, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Inspectors from France and Netherlands will soon come to Indonesia to check safety standard of Indonesian airliners, Indonesian transport minister Jjusman Syafii Djamal said here Thursday.
Indonesian leading airline Garuda seeks opening routes to the two countries in cooperation with its counterparts in the two countries.
"In the near future, they will conduct inspections in Indonesia, in term of safety," Djamal told a press conference at the Indonesia Defense Expo at the Halim Perdana Kusuma airforce base here.
The minister said that the country's airliners, which have been banned by the European Union, had achieved some progress on their safety.
"Actually, the Indonesian airliners now have complied with the international safety standard," he said.
The European Union banned 51 Indonesian airliners in July 2007,after a rampant air accident that claimed more than 300 lives.
