ABSTRACT
It is crucial to note that although mobility regimes may regulate transnational movements, they are still grounded in a local context. Most social-scientic studies of airports and air travel focus on Western airports (for exceptions, see Chaln 2008; Sheller 2010), whereas the types of mobilities, the practices of regulating mobilities, and the politics of these practices may be dierent at airports in other parts of the world. Transnational migrant workers and registered
travelers are global phenomena, yet their mobility is produced, regulated, and re-embedded in specic local contexts. Also, regional developments in air travel itself may inuence practices of regulating mobilities. In Indonesia, domestic air travel growth in particular has skyrocketed over the last decade. With the development of low-cost airlines and improvements in Indonesia’s economic condition, traveling by air has become cheaper and more Indonesians can aord to buy a plane ticket. As a result, passenger numbers at Jakarta Airport have grown from 14.8 million in 2002 to 37.1 million in 2009 and are expected to keep increasing by 10 per cent per year.4 With the two original terminals designed to accommodate 18 million passengers, the Jakarta Airport operator faces serious challenges in managing a smooth passenger ow in the terminals. This makes it all the more urgent for the authorities to regulate access to airport spaces and develop new ways to deal with the dierent types of mobilities that move through the airport.
