ND SatCom has teamed with Studio Hamburg Media Consult International to provide an Internet protocol (IP)-based radio contribution and distribution network for Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI), ND SatCom announced March 7.

The network collects IP data streams of regional and national content from several studios. Digital multicast streams are sent via satellite to 95 radio transmit stations for terrestrial distribution.

About 6,000 of Indonesia’s 18,000 islands are inhabited, and “due to little terrestrial infrastructure, satellite communication is the only way to provide more than 200 million inhabitants reliably with national breaking news as well as regional content,” Dieter Dreizler of ND SatCom said in a statement.