Topic: Private Sector Access to Outer Space
Country: Indonesia
Delegate Name: Ella Stauffer
School: Forest Hills Northern High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Indonesia position papers GLIMUN 2016 committees
Indonesia is a developing country and they need help from the UN to provide funding to go out into space. Countries like Indonesia want better access to the world's research and development for space. This is because less than eight percent of the world’s space research comes from developing countries.
Indonesia does not have a private sector to access to space because they are a developing country. Their government-run space agency is called LAPAN (National institute of aeronautics and space) It was established by former Indonesian president Sukarno in 1963. For over two centuries, JAPAN has managed satellites and sounding rockets. They are currently working on developing small orbital space launchers. LAPAN has launched satellites LAPAN A1 in 2007 and LAPAN A2 in 2015. On May 31, 1962, Indonesia commenced aeronautics exploration when the Aeronautics Committee was established by the Indonesian prime minister, Juanda, who was also the head of Indonesian Aeronautics. On September 22, 1962, the Initial Scientific and Military Rocket Project (known in Indonesia as "PRIMA") was formed as an affiliation of AURI (Indonesian Air Force) and ITB (Bandung Institute of Technology). The outcome of the project was the launching of two "Kartika"("star") series rockets and their telemetric ordnances. After two informal projects, which had no national effect, the LAPAN was established.
Indonesia has proposed to UN five things which include, all countries have access to information of the progress and development and its legal instruments, communication between countries in facilitating information about progress should be facilitated, promotion of international cooperation to allow in-country space technology and r as well as international economic and industrial development cooperation in a win-win situations, in carrying out industrialization of space technology and applications by industrial and developing countries alike as partners so they both benefit, and finally increasing number of space conventions and encouraging further international space cooperation including the interests of all countries.
Indonesia believes that all countries should work together when it comes to space exploration. LAPAN in Indonesia is a strong organization but they just does not have the money needed to create private sector access to space.
