REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia will launch a new satellite named Telkom-3R in 2016 to replace the missing satellite Telkom-3. The company had received an insurance claim worth 1.665 trillion IDR for the missing satellite, Executive Director of Telkom, Arief Yahya, said.

"We can appoint Russian ISS-Reshetnev to redesign the new satellite," he said on Wednesday. ISS-Reshetnev also designed the Telkom-3. Thus, the company is expected to speed up the process of building the new one. Telkom will also have the right to choose the slot of satellite launch and its coverage.

In the mean time, Telkom will rent Japanese or Chinese satellite. It has allocated a million USD or 9.6 billion IDR to rent the satellite.

Telkom-3 went missing from its orbit shortly after taking off from Russian cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Telkom finally received the insurance claim worth 185.31 million USD or 1.665 trillion IDR three months ago.

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