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May 17 16:47
RI, CHINA TO COOPERATE IN MAKING ROCKETS, SAYS MINISTER
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia and China will sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) mid this year on development of short-, medium- and long-range rockets as well as guided rockets, State Minister for Research and Technology Kusmayanto Kadiman said here Tuesday.
"Our state is a maritime country, the sea is where state defense starts. Long-range rockets will be launched from small islands or ships," he said on the sidelines of the commemoration of 10th anniversary of the National Technology Awakening Day.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jiantao would sign the MOU during the former`s visit to Beijing next month.
The minister said based on the agreement, China would transfer its technology by allowing Indonesia to study a Chinese rocket so that at the end of the cooperation. Indonesia would then hopefully be capable of making its own rockets.
The development of a rocket which has a diameter of 150 mm-250 mm and a cruising speed of 15 km-30 km per hour would use an open system which was in line with international standard, he said.
The cooperation with China began in 2002 and was resumed when Yudhoyono met with Hu at the Asian-Afrian Conference which was held here last month.
Kusmayanto, who has been named rocket development coordinator, expressed hope the Defense Ministry that had a budget of Rp 24 trillion would be ready to allocate, for example, Rp 1 trillion for the development of national technology so that Indonesia will capable of producing its own defense system.
Indonesia, he said, had plenty of experts and human resources but was short of technology and funds to develop rockets.
He also said Indonesia would entrust a climate monitoring device to an Indian satellite which would be launched in the near future.
As it is a bilateral cooperation, India will also use data collected by the device. Indonesia will only spend US$30,000 in ten years on the cooperation," he said.(*)
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