Cancer Treatment, BRIN Cares For Nuclear Technology Development

Head of BRIN Laksana Tri Handoko (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) stated that it will immediately work on developing nuclear technology for medical applications, especially cancer therapy, because Indonesia still lacks these facilities. Head of BRIN Laksana Tri Handoko said that nuclear facilities can only be accessed by rich people because the price is very expensive. "If we provide it to be cheap," he said, quoted by ANTARA in Jakarta, Friday, February 24.Handoko said BRIN has resources for the facility ranging from nuclear area to operator power. According to him, BRIN has prepared special medical facilities in the nuclear area Friday, South Jakarta. The facility is sharing resources so that every hospital needs to have a therapeutic proton whose price can reach Rp1 trillion, and patients also do not need to pay up to Rp600 million for each therapy package. Serpong, South Tangerang City, Banten Province. over the next two years, BRIN will focus on research and innovation that includes the food sector, medical, as well as the environment of life. In addition to nuclear development for cancer, BRIN is also working on research and innovation regarding remote sensing satellites because Indonesia is very dependent on such technology to see disasters, forest fires, oil zoning at sea, checking oil spills, fish theft by foreign vessels, looking at forests, and so on.

Handoko revealed that Indonesia is currently still buying the satellite image facility by spending hundreds of billions of Rupiah every year. "Through BRIN, we buy it for all ministries and institutions and local governments. Instead of buying hundreds of billions every year, it's better if we have our own satellites," he concluded.