BAKOSURTANAL

Established in 1965 (under the previous name DESURTANAL) and officially being BAKOSURTANAL in 1969 (Badan Koordinasi Survei dan Pemetaan Nasional / National Coordinating Agency for Survey and Mapping).

One of the most important mapping activity histories by BAKOSURTANAL was the boundary mapping in 1971-1998. The National Coordinating Agency for Surveys and Mapping (BAKOSURTANAL) is a non-departmental Government institution formed to conduct related government duties and responsible to the President of the Republic of Indonesia.

In implementing its duties, BAKOSURTANAL executes some functions, such as:

• To study and create national policies in surveys and mapping;
• To develop a national spatial data infrastructure;
• To coordinate functional activities in conducting the agency tasks;
• To monitor, guide and develop activities of government institutions in the field of national surveys and mapping;
• To organize, develop and serve general administration in the field of general planning, management organization, personnel, financial, archive, regulation, code and internal affair.

Some activities of BAKOSURTANAL:

• Spatial planning and base mapping
• Marine base mapping and aeronautical charting
• State boundary studies and administrative boundary mapping
• Development of national geodetic control network frame, gravity and sea tides
• National natural resources inventory – land and sea features
• Natural resources and environmental balances
• Preparation of environment and resources atlases
• Development of network system, metadata and fundamental data standardization
• Research and development on surveys and mapping
• Improvement of human resources capabilities in surveys and mapping
• Organizing information system and services, socialization and dissemination in the form of workshop, exhibition and map drawing competition for children
• Formulation of norm, procedures, guidelines, standard and technical specification in the field of surveys and mapping
• Planning system execution, etc.