Indonesian ENCs

The remainder will be released steadily in the next few months.  All Indonesian ENCs will be available within AVCS Flexible Licensing.

The Indonesian ENCs will be distributed through AVCS Flexible Licensing. This allows users to accurately match the ENCs that they hold to their operational patterns and lowers the overall cost of subscription by ensuring that ENCs are only paid for over the period that they are required.

The UKHO's Flexible Licensing package now extends to the ENCs of 42 nations - all but two of the countries whose ENCs are available through AVCS.

Indonesia is a major trading nation and comprehensive charting, both in paper and, increasingly ENCs, is important for the safe and efficient development of the islands which also harbour many environmentally important marine habitats. Accordingly, the Indonesian Hydro-Oceanographic Office is responsible for charting a vast archipelagic state which stretches over 45 degrees of longitude and three time zones.

The significance of this new ENC coverage to the international mariner in this area is therefore considerable, especially as these islands straddle the primary shipping lanes to and from the Indian Ocean and Western Australia to the main producer nations of the Far East. This means that heavy shipping is concentrated into these Archipelagic Sea Lanes and therefore needs the best and official navigational safety information for planning and passage.

First Admiral Sugeng Supriyanto, Chief Hydrographer of Indonesia explained that ENC production in Indonesia has been done through a very tight quality control by conducting field check and sea trial to confirm between data in the ENC with its reality on the ground, and then to be finalised with a joint verification and validation with UKHO.