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Indonesia plans to construct its first spaceport in Biak, Papua, to serve the country’s rocket test launches, the country’s National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN) has confirmed.

Indonesia is looking to develop an amphibious aircraft in the next five years to solve the perennial problem of inter-island transportation in the archipelago, the country’s Research and Technology Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro has said.

Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) detected at least 18,895 hotspots of forest and land fires in Southeast Asia and Papua New Guinea over the past two weeks.

Muslims in Indonesia began fasting for the Ramadan festive month on May 6.

About 70 foreigners were in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia when an earthquake and tsunami struck here and most have been safe, according to the Indonesian National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB).

The death toll from a strong earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province has climbed to 832, and the figure is expected to increase, said according to the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) on September 30.

Indonesia launched a satellite named LAPAN A2 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in Sriharikota on September 28.