Sentani International Airport (DJJ) is an airport serving Jayapura, the capital of Papua province, Indonesia, on the island of New Guinea. Sentani airport is the hub of Papuan aviation and many people's first point of arrival in Papua.
Sentani Airport was part of the American facilities at Hollandia, which was liberated from the Japanese by an American amphibious task force on 22 April 1944. At the end of the war the Hollandia airfield was abandoned but remains in good condition to this day. Sentani Airfield is the only part of the complex still in use as an airfield today. It is used as the principal entry point into the Indonesian half of the island.
Most flights from Sentani International Airport are to Makassar and to Jakarta but there are many more flights to other destinations as well, most of them by Lion Air. These are the most popular destinations from Sentani International Airport:
Makassar (UPG)Jakarta (JKTA)Wamena (WMX)Timika (TIM)Merauke (MKQ)Nabire (NBX)Sorong (SOQ)Biak (BIK)Manokwari (MKW)
