May 2016, appropriation of N219 Targeted Completed Aircraft

Menristekdikti M. Nasir expressed manufacture N219 aircraft made in Indonesia is targeted to be completed production and certification in May 2016.

"Aircraft industry really had stopped, but I decided to be continued in order to connect the small islands and cities with a distance not too far away. The plane will be starting October 28, 2015," said M. Nasir.

Thereafter, further Nasir, the best result of cooperation Kemenristekdikti and the National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN) is then equipped with the avionics system, followed by certification in February to March.

While Germany, said Nasir, also helped build R-80 aircraft developed by PT Regio Aviation Industries, a company owned Ilham Habibie, Indonesia's third President son BJ Habibie.