Mopah International Airport guide

Mopah Airport sits on the southern coast of Papua, about 3 km from the centre of Merauke. It is the busiest airport in South Papua province and the second easternmost in Indonesia, after Sentani in Jayapura.

The field began as an airstrip in 1943, during the Second World War. It now has a single asphalt runway, 16/34, which measures 2,500 by 45 m at an elevation of 3 m above sea level. The Indonesian Air Force shares the site, which also hosts Johannes Abraham Dimara Air Force Base.

Scheduled services are domestic. Garuda Indonesia and Lion Air fly to Jakarta and Jayapura, and Lion Air also flies to Makassar. Trigana Air links Merauke with smaller Papuan airstrips such as Agats, Kepi, Oksibil and Tanahmerah. Air Niugini once flew to Daru in Papua New Guinea, but that service ended in the late 1990s. The airport lost its international status in May 2024 and regained it in August 2025.

Traffic peaked at about 443,000 passengers in 2018, fell to under 160,000 in 2020, and has grown every year since. A 2015 renovation enlarged the terminal to 4,634 m2, and a new terminal building of 7,200 m2 opened in 2021 as the first phase of a three-phase project.