Bahasa Airplane

This is one of a series of films, entitled MAKING A DIFFERENCE, celebrating the men and women who have chosen to work, a long way from home, to try and make the world a better place.

• Categories: News & Features / Features / Making a Difference
• Video Length: 00:12:47
• Production Date: 18 November 1986
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION - ICAO
• Subject Topical: AIR TRANSPORT; AIRCRAFT; AVIATION SECURITY; CIVIL AVIATION
• Geographic Subject: INDONESIA
• MAMS Id: 2642816
• Parent Id: 837265

Description

Most of the work of the United Nations takes place, not in the halls of political debate or the corridors of bureaucracy, but in the rice-paddies, the dispensaries and the training schools of the developing world.

BAHASA AIRPLANE is a film about David Andrews, from Oklahoma, who was sent by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to Indonesia, to help strengthen that country’s civil aviation network. “Bahasa” in Indonesian, means, “language”, and “Bahasa Airplane” is what Indonesians increasingly must learn as the build a communications network among the 13,000 islands that form their nation.

• Scripts: File; BAHASA_AIRPLANE_704_SCRIPT_SEP86.pdf (292.95 KB); File; BAHASA_AIRPLANE_704_SYNOPSIS_SEP86.pdf (118.82 KB)