 The airport is expected to become the new international transit center in Sumatra and the western part of Indonesia.It is part of Indonesia's central government's program under "Masterplan to Accelerate and Expand Economic Development in Indonesia" (MP3EI) and one of the strategies for the ASEAN Single Aviation Market (ASEAN-SAM), an open skies policy among member-countries in the Southeast Asia region starting 2015.Polonia airport was the site of several accidents.