Indonesias continental breadth prevented the same degree of primacy from being attained; nevertheless, Jakartas 84% share of international airline capacity in a archipelago comprising nearly 14 000 islands stretched over 3000 miles was remarkable. In Malaysia, the distribution of international airline services in 1979 was affected by the bifurcation of the national territory between East Malaysia and Peninsular Malaysia. Within Peninsular Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur accounted for 78% of international airline capacity. This pattern of air network primacy was repeated at the broader regional level in the dominance of Southeast Asian air traffic patterns by Singapore and to a lesser extent Bangkok. Singapore has long been the region's premier air transportation hub, a status derived in part from the early development of Singapores first airport under British colonialism. By the late 1970s, Singapore was the focal point of the intraregional airline network (Fig. 5).