Space industry in Indonesia

Indonesian Space Agency

Jakarta, Indonesia government

BRIN (Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional / National Research and Innovation Agency) is Indonesia's consolidated national research body that absorbed LAPAN (the national space agency) in 2021. Indonesia's space activities under BRIN/LAPAN include the LAPAN-A series of microsatellites (LAPAN-A1, A2, A3 for EO and AIS ship tracking), development of a small launch vehicle (RX-450 rocket research program), and operation of ground stations. Indonesia has strategic value for equatorial orbit launches: sites at Biak (Papua) and Morotai at 0-2°N latitude offer near-equatorial trajectories that provide maximum performance for geostationary missions. Indonesia's growing space ambitions are driven by the practical needs of the world's largest archipelago nation (17,000 islands) where satellite communications are essential infrastructure for connecting remote communities.

PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN) is Indonesia's first private satellite telecommunications company, headquartered in Kota Bekasi in the Jakarta metropolitan area. It was founded in 1991 by satellite engineers Adi Rahman Adiwoso and Iskandar Alisjahbana, and in 1996 became the first Indonesian company listed on the NASDAQ exchange. PSN provides satellite-based telecommunications, broadband and connectivity services across the Indonesian archipelago and wider Southeast Asia, and today ranks among Indonesia's small number of satellite operators. The company owns and operates Nusantara Satu (also known as PSN-6), a high-throughput communications satellite built by SSL (Space Systems Loral) with roughly 15 gigabits per second of capacity across C-band, extended C-band and Ku-band transponders, launched on a Falcon 9 in February 2019 to expand broadband access in rural Indonesia. PSN subsequently partnered with the Indonesian government on Nusantara Tiga (SATRIA-1), a very-high-throughput satellite delivering roughly 150 gigabits per second that launched in June 2023 as part of Indonesia's national broadband-access program, and has since added Nusantara Lima, launched in September 2025 and described by the company as the largest-capacity satellite in the region at around 160 gigabits per second. PSN sells connectivity services to corporate, small-business, government and retail customers, with a particular focus on extending internet access to Indonesia's remote islands and rural regions, and operates as a commercial, privately led satellite operator working in close partnership with Indonesian state broadband initiatives.

Telkomsat (legally PT Telkom Satelit Indonesia) is a Jakarta-headquartered satellite operator formed on May 3, 2018 through the merger of three existing Telkom Indonesia satellite units, Patrakom, Metrasat and Prosat, into a single wholly owned Telkom Indonesia subsidiary. The company operates and markets capacity on Indonesia's Telkom-2 and Telkom-3S satellites as well as the Merah Putih and Merah Putih-2 high-throughput satellites (the latter launched in February 2024), providing VSAT, broadband, satellite-phone, TV-uplink and earth-observation services to government, financial, maritime and telecom customers across Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Telkomsat also operates a Malaysian subsidiary, TSGN, which runs the MySat service, extending its regional satellite-connectivity footprint beyond Indonesia.