Five years of shared satellites: Indonesia can now watch its own seas from space

Indonesia's seas are vast — too vast to patrol by boat alone. Since 2022, South Korea's National Marine Research Institute has been building Indonesia's ability to watch them from orbit: satellite data for Indonesian waters, processing systems, observation equipment and training, in a $5 million development project. Four Indonesian specialists have completed master's-level training, with short courses twice a year, and on Monday the two countries hold their third joint workshop in Jakarta — sharing results on spotting oil slicks, monitoring coral reefs and mapping mangrove forests. Korea is also training shipping policymakers from 17 island and developing nations in Busan this week on cutting greenhouse gases from ships.

SDG 14 · Life below water — Mechanism: institutional program