The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (Direktorat Jenderal Perhubungan Udara, lit.

[4] For much of its existence, those companies operated flights and regulated civilian flights in Dutch East Indies until 25 December 1949, when a KLM representative, Dr. Konijnenburg, met Sukarno in Yogyakarta and relinquished KLM Interinsulair Bedrijf which was formed after KNILM dissolution in 1947, to Indonesian government as follow up of the Round Table Conference.

While much of the KLM Interinsulair Bedrijf later transformed to Garuda Indonesia Airline, part of it transformed to civilian flight regulatory authority called Djawatan Penerbangan Sipil (Civil Aviation Service) in 1952.

[4] To support the Directorate General work, a network of air navigational aid system, SENOPEN (Sentra Operasi Keselamatan Penerbangan, Air Safety Operation Center), opened in 1978 with 7 offices across Indonesia.

[4] Ministry of Transportation The Directorate General of Civil Aviation shall perform the following functions :[6]