Indonesia aims to have its own space in the city 25 years
into the future and attempt to start preparing a master plan the long-term. Based on the mandate of Act No.
21 Year 2013 About outer space, the Act is expected to be a cornerstone in the
implementation of national outer space
Secretary of the Board of
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the Republic of Indonesia
(Depanri) began to determine the direction outer space Indonesia for the next
25 years. There are some things that become the target of national space in the
long term.
"In the next 25 years,
its image, we want to master science and space, has a research National
Observatory, satellite communications, and the city space," said Secretary
Depanri and Head of Institute of Aeronautics and Space Agency (Lapan), Thomas
Jamaluddin, in BPPT building, Jakarta, Wednesday, December 10, 2014.
Wake up New Observatory
Center in East Nusa
Indonesia also plans to
build a new national observatory equipped with astronomical observations that
will be built at the location where the weather is predominantly sunny.
"It is planned to be
built in East Nusa as the area always looks bright and not much light
pollution," he said.
As for the city space or
space port, Thomas still undecided construction site. Because, at this time
there are two candidates were deemed a good area to build the space city.
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