A project story
A member built an international CGK airport site because the official one wasn't reachable outside Indonesia.
jakartaairportcgk.com filled the gap. Here's what happened next, and why this kind of work matters.
The gap.
Soekarno-Hatta is Indonesia's biggest airport. It runs on a public mandate, and it serves an international public. But for years, its official website couldn't be reached from outside Indonesia. International travelers, returning Indonesians, anyone looking up a flight from abroad just hit a blank screen.
This kind of failure tends to happen quietly and stay broken. The people who can fix it aren't the ones affected by it.
What got built.
jakartaairportcgk.com is a bare-bones alternative built by Terry Djony. It loads fast, works on slow connections, and you can reach it from anywhere in the world.
It scores 100/100 on PageSpeed. There's no tracking and nothing extra. The idea was to build what people actually need, and not get in their way.
What happened next.
A Threads post about the project went viral. Indonesians and international travelers recognized the problem right away. A lot of them had been hitting it for years.
The result.
As of May 19, 2026, the official Soekarno-Hatta site works from outside Indonesia again. There's no way to prove the project had anything to do with that, but the timing lines up. Either way, what matters is that a public service is finally serving the public it was built for.
Update, July 11, 2026: the official site is returning a 502 Bad Gateway. Reachability from abroad was patched two months ago. Reliability is still open.
The builder keeps jakartaairportcgk.com online anyway. It's still faster, and still works better on slow connections. As long as that's true, the alternative stays up.
Why this matters.
Public Tech Foundation exists because a lot of public infrastructure work in Indonesia just isn't getting done. Most of it isn't technically hard. Someone needs to actually do it, and sometimes, to point at what's broken until it gets fixed.
This is one small story. More will follow.