Jokowi Calls For A Thorough Investigation of Defense Satellite

Indonesia – President Joko Widodo has requested an exhaustive examination concerning claimed legitimate infringement in the acquisition of a protection satellite that caused Rp800 billion in misfortunes to the state exchequer.

The President has educated him to settle the case completely. This is what Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs, Mahfud MD, said at a question and answer session that was transferred on the service’s Youtube channel.

The public authority has held a few gatherings to examine the issue, he informed. Mahfud said he had facilitated with Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, Communication and Informatics Minister Johnny G. Plate, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, National Defense Forces (TNI) boss General Andika Perkasa, and Attorney General ST Burhanuddin on the issue.

The satellite venture being referred to was acknowledged in 2015 when Ryamizard Ryacudu was guard serve, he said. The undertaking was connected with the administration of the 123 degrees east longitude orbital opening for the satellite.

On January 19, 2015, Satellite Garuda-1 remaining the 123 degrees east longitude orbital opening, subsequently prompting a vacuum in the space’s the executives with respect to Indonesia. According to International Telecommunication Union (ITU) guidelines, a country that has gotten administration privileges has three years to top off the orbital space, he noted. In any case, the administration freedoms naturally become invalid, permitting one more country to utilize the opening, he clarified.

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To fill the empty space, the Communication and Informatics Ministry had met the Defense Ministry’s solicitation to tie down the freedoms to oversee it to fabricate a protection correspondence satellite (Satkomhan), Mahfud informed.

From there on, the Defense Ministry marked an agreement with Avanti Communication Limited (Avanti) on December 6, 2015, to rent the Artemis Satellite, which was to work as a floater (brief circle filling satellite), albeit the Communication and Informatics Ministry gave a license to utilize the orbital space at 123 degrees east longitude just on January 29, 2016, he said.

Notwithstanding, the Defense Ministry returned the opening circle the executives freedoms to the Communication and Informatics Ministry on June 25, 2018, he added.

On December 10, 2018, the Communication and Informatics Ministry settled on a choice to move the option to utilize Indonesian satellites, Garuda-2 and Nusantara-A1-A, in the 123 degrees east longitude circle documenting space to PT Dini Nusa Kusuma (PT DNK). Notwithstanding, PT DNK couldn’t settle the leftover issue looked by the Defense Ministry in the obtainment of the guard correspondence satellite, Mahfud said.

At the point when the Defense Ministry marked the agreement with Avanti in 2015, it didn’t have the financial plan for it, he added.

The agreement was endorsed to fabricate a guard correspondence satellite, which included immense assets albeit the assets were not accessible,” Mahfud said.

To assemble the satellite, the Defense Ministry likewise marked agreements with Navajo, Airbus, Detente, Hogan Lovel, and Telesat during the 2015-2016 period, albeit the financial plan for 2015 additionally was not accessible, he uncovered.

The financial plan was accessible just in 2016, notwithstanding, the Defense Ministry self-impeded it,m. Therefore, Avanti recorded a claim with the London Court of International Arbitration against the Defense Ministry for neglecting to pay satellite lease, as per the agreement esteem they had settled upon, he informed.

On July 9, 2019, the assertion court gave a decision guiding the country to give an expected Rp515 billion to Artemis in satellite lease, intervention expenses, counseling charges, and recording satellite rents.

The public authority likewise has quite recently gotten a decision from the Singapore International Arbitration Center (SIAC) regarding Navayo’s claim, he added. The SIAC has guided the public authority to pay US$20.9 million, or Rp304 billion, to Navajo, he proceeded.

Mahfud anticipated the misfortunes will increment since different organizations that have marked agreements with the Defense Ministry have not recorded claims against it yet.