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HYDROGRAPHIC AND OCEANOGRAPHIC CENTER, THE INDONESIAN NAVY Pantai Kuta V No.1 Jakarta 14430 Indonesia Phone. (+62)21.6470.4810 Fax. (+62)21.6471.4819 E-mail: [email protected]

98th WORLD HYDROGRAPHY DAY CELEBRATION IN INDONESIA

IHO and its currently 89 Member States will reaffirm their commitment to raising awareness of the importance of hydrography and continue to coordinate their activities, in particular through maintaining and publishing relevant international standards, providing capacity building and assistance to those countries.

Hydrographic services require improvement and by encouraging the collection and discovery of new hydrographic data through new emerging technologies and by ensuring the widest possible availability of this data through the development of national and regional Marine Spatial Data Infrastructures.

As a national hydrographic office and member of the IHO, Pushidrosal has a cooperation with other agencies such as government agencies, maritime industries, scientists, colleges and hydrographic communities.

To commemorate the 98th World Hydrography Day 2019 themed Hydrographic Information Driving Marine Knowledge, Pushidrosal held a number of activities such as Hydrographic Seminar, MSS ENC Workshop and FGD Marine Cartography.

The Hydrographic Seminar was held to obtained an information and advice from other agencies and experts in order to formulating policies on navigation savety and marine development. The provision of human resources is one of a concern. 2 Indonesia (as MSS ENC coordinator and administrator), has organized the MSS ENC Workshop. The patterns and procedures to managing MSS ENC are dicussed. Either Navigation safety in the Malacca Strait and Singapore strait.

The Marine Cartography Focus Discussion Group (FGD) was held to look for answer regarding the fulfillment of human resource who have Marine Cartography capabilities.

Sincerely Yours,

Rear Admiral Dr. Harjo Susmoro Indonesia Chief Hydrographer 3

DOKUMENTATIONS

1. Hydrography Seminar

Indonesian Chief of Hydrographer, Rear Admiral Dr. Harjo Susmoro as a speaker in the 2019 World Hydrographic Day Seminar 4

2. MSS ENC Workshop

Dicussion Session in MSS ENC Workshop

3. Focus Discussion Group (FGD) Marine Cartography

Human resources providing presentation 5

4. Other Activities 6

Sincerely Yours,

Rear Admiral Dr. Harjo Susmoro Indonesia Chief Hydrographer