History Merpati Nusantara Airlines, Merpati Training Centre

Merpati Nusantara Airlines is the nation's work raised in a culturally and linguistically diverse. Everything becomes forging for Pigeons to grow more mature. Since its establishment until now, Merpati always trying to improve itself and provide the best for the nation and state, as well as build the image of aviation in the country. Commitment to always be in the forefront in the ranks of the national airline is not a mere chimera. Milestones have been planted, and the flag was flown. By continuing to uphold
the nation's identity, Pigeon drove in an era that is increasingly open.

Various efforts and strategies have been and are being encouraged to support this commitment, including the restructuring program. This program covers various areas of capability improvement in profitability, efficiency and effectiveness, the quality of human resources, and sustainable competitiveness.

The airline was established and started operations on 6 September 1962. It was set up by the Indonesian government as the second state airline, with the main objective of taking over the network of domestic services developed by the Air Force since 1958. During 1962, it also took over the routes in Papua (formerly New Guinea) previously operated by KLM subsidiary, De Kroonduif, which had been flown by Garuda since 1962. In October 1978, the airline was taken over by Garuda, but continued to operate under its own name. Merpati was integrated into the Garuda Indonesia Group in September 1989, but was granted government permission to separate in 1993, although the split did not actually take place until April 1997. It is owned by the Indonesian Government (93.2%) and Garuda Indonesia (6.8%).

Merpati Training Centre

Merpati Training Centre is a division of Strategic Business Unit and is one of the largest aviation training centres in Indonesia. It conducts ground school courses for pilots, flight attendants, flight operation officers (dispatchers), commercial airline operations and administration staff in the region. The training centre was originally founded in 1994 and known as 'Flight Safety Training' training initially Merpati's own staff , but later changed its name to the Merpati Training Centre (MTC) in 1999 offering aviation training services to other airlines and companies in the region. Some of MTC's clients include Indonesia's national airline, Garuda Indonesia, Sriwijaya Air, Batavia Air, Lion Air, Pelita Air Service and many more.

Courses conducted by the MTC include type rating courses for pilots, flight attendants and flight operation officers on the Fokker F27, CASA CN-235, DHC-6 Twin Otter, CASA C-212 Aviocar, as well as other ground courses including Dangerous Goods Awareness, Airline Transport Pilot License (ATPL) theory, Cockpit Resources Management (CRM) and Multi Crew Coordination (MCC).

MTC has two campuses located in Jakarta and Surabaya. MTC's Jakarta campus is located on the 11th Floor of the Merpati Building in Kemayoran, where as the Surabaya campus is located at Juanda International Airport.

On 16 February 2010, the Merpati Pilot School, a department of the MTC, was officially launched at Surabaya's Juanda International Airport. The flying school was awarded its Part 141 certification from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation on 18 August 2009 and currently has a fleet of two Cessna C172, registered PK-MSH and PK-MSN with 3 more aircraft to join the fleet in 2011. Ground school for cadet pilots are conducted at the Merpati Training Centre in Surabaya, and flight training will be conducted from Trunojoyo Airport, Sumenep on the island of Madura