Online journal covers Indonesia's telecommunications development
Online journal covers Indonesia's telecommunications development
Both Indonesian people and foreigners alike are unlikely to know
that the world's largest archipelagic country was the first in
the developing world to launch its own domestic satellite
communications.
The satelite launch in 1976 and the subsequent development of
the country's communications industry is one of many subjects
covered by the eighth edition of the Online Journal of Space
Communication.
Tracking the country's development of space communications
technology from the launch of the Palapa satelite, owned by then
state telecommunications company Perumtel, to the massive
proliferation of telecommunications technology as indicated by
the presence of 10 national TV channels and a number of private
telephone operating companies, the edition is a comprehensive
review of the country's development of telecommunications
technology.
A number of satellite scholars and professionals, including
telecommunications expert-cum-politician Marwah Daud Ibrahim and
former program manager for the first Palapa satelite and
telecommunication professor of the Bandung's Institute of
Technology (ITB) Arnold Ph. Djiwatampu serve as contributors in
the publication.
Acting as chair of an editing team for the publication is
Putut Widjanarko, a PhD candidate at Athens-based Ohio
University.
A guest editor for the edition is Sukarno Abdulrahman,
chairman of the Indonesian Telematics Society.
The Online Journal of Space Communication is an international
electronic journal on telecommunications technology, a project of
the New York-based Society for Satelite Professionals
International.
The Journal is hosted and editorially managed by the Institute
for Telecommunications Studies at Ohio University.
In its past editions, the online publication has discussed a
variety of themes ranging from the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA)'s advanced telecommunication satelite,
satelite remote sensing and satelite security to satelite
communications in Canada. -- JP.
Online Journal:
http://satjournal.tcom.ohio.edu/issue8/main.html