"We focus it on (internet needs) in schools. This is the important basic need that young people (in Indonesia) can at least access the internet to study," head of satellite infrastructure at BAKTI, Sri Sanggrama Aradea, informed here on Monday.
Aradea said that the education sector is SATRIA-1's priority because most schools are not connected to the internet.
Currently, BAKTI, together with the Coordinating Ministry for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs, is communicating with several ministries and agencies to decide on the recipients of internet access when SATRIA-1 becomes operational.
The related ministries and institutions are the Health Ministry, the Education, Culture, Research, and Technology Ministry, the Home Ministry, the National Police, and the National Defense Forces (TNI).
Initially, BAKTI projected that 150 thousand points will be served by SATRIA-1.
It has decided to provide internet services through SATRIA-1 at 50 thousand points set up at public facilities such as schools, hospitals, police stations, TNI offices, and local government offices that are completely unconnected to the internet.
Furthermore, BAKTI has determined that schools are public facilities that require internet service the most, as many of them are still unplugged from the internet.
"Our data says that there are 92 thousand school points (that are unconnected), so at least we can reduce the number of (unconnected) schools first," Aradea said.
It has been reported that SATRIA-1 is currently heading into orbit at 146 degrees east longitude after blasting off in mid-June 2023 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the United States, using SpaceX's Falcon-9 rocket.It is expected that SATRIA-1 will become operational at the end of 2023 or January 2024 to serve selected public facility points in disadvantaged, frontier, and outermost (3T) regions in the country.
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