BRIN Fights for Orbit Access and Indonesia's Role in the UNCOPOUS Forum 2026

JAKARTA - The National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) strengthens Indonesia's position in space diplomacy at the UNCOPOUS 2026 forum. This is done so that Indonesia gets fair access to satellite orbits.

In the UNCOPOUS forum, an acronym for the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, the head of the BRIN Aeronautics and Space Research Organization, Robertus Heru Triharjanto, revealed his agency's global role.

BRIN is responsible for registering all space objects owned by the government, private sector, to Indonesian universities to global authorities. In addition, Indonesia through BRIN is now an important reference in the use of remote sensing data for the Asia Pacific region.

"BRIN is also a reference in the use of satellite-based remote sensing data to support development," said Heru in his statement, quoted on Thursday, March 26.

Satellite image data from Indonesia has been used in various sectors, including agriculture and forestry. To complement the data needs, BRIN also develops radar technology as a monitoring tool for fisheries and early detection of pollution in the sea.

Satellite data also has a very crucial role in mitigating disasters, ranging from tsunamis to major floods. In the future, BRIN will develop a satellite-based communication system to support the Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure.

Indonesia has maintained global space diplomacy since 1972. Indonesia is also trusted by the United Nations in helping to process disaster data for countries in Southeast Asia through the UN-SPIDER program.

Seeing the many satellites operating in low Earth orbit (LEO), such as Starlink and OneWeb, BRIN emphasizes that space governance is very important. That way, developing countries can participate in the competition for space utilization.