• AirNav completed JARKOMPENAS migration and began full operations on 31 August, marking readiness on 8 September
  • The network separates AirNav’s internal systems from information exchanges with domestic and international aviation stakeholders

The fact

AirNav Indonesia said on 8 September that JARKOMPENAS, its national aviation communications network, is fully operational after migration was completed on 31 August. The company signed the network’s readiness record in Surabaya with the Jasnikom–XL Smart consortium. JARKOMPENAS connects AirNav offices, service locations, ground stations and navigation equipment across Indonesia and supports air-to-ground communications.

The network has two main parts. Its intranet connects AirNav’s own locations and equipment, while the extranet is used to exchange information with aviation organisations in Indonesia and overseas.

AirNav said JARKOMPENAS can support future aviation information systems, including System Wide Information Management, or SWIM. The announcement did not say that SWIM or other future applications are already operating on the network. AirNav said JARKOMPENAS is expected to improve the reliability and efficiency of aviation communications, but it did not publish measured availability, recovery-time or flight-operation results.

The assessment

The split between AirNav’s intranet and extranet becomes important when new aviation systems are connected. An application used only inside AirNav can remain on the internal network, while one that exchanges information with an airport, airline or overseas aviation organisation must also work across the external connection.

That creates a clear point where responsibilities need to be agreed before a service goes live. AirNav can complete its part of an integration while an outside organisation is still testing its own system or connection. Project teams therefore need to know which interfaces must work, who is responsible for each side and how failures will be handled during testing and operation.

For BTW readers, completing the JARKOMPENAS migration establishes the communications network, but each new application will still need its own integration and acceptance work. The useful next evidence will be named services moving onto the network, the organisations involved and measured performance once those connections are in operational use.

What to watch

Watch for the first named applications or external aviation systems to complete integration and operational acceptance on JARKOMPENAS. Published availability, recovery or information-exchange measures would also show how the network performs in daily aviation operations.