<div dir="ltr"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Radio hams in Indonesia get new bands including 5 MHz</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">ORARI reports new Indonesian amateur radio regulations have been issued with new bands at 136 kHz, 472 kHz and 5 MHz <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of the Republic of Indonesia has issued the new Amateur Radio Regulations dated December 31, 2018.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">ORARI in Google English <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/IndonesiaORARI" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https:/tinyurl.com/IndonesiaORARI</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">New amateur radio regulations <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://orari.or.id/files/edocument/PM_Kominfo_No_17_Tahun_2018_JDIH_111017701.pdf" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://orari.or.id/files/edocument/<br style="box-sizing:border-box">PM_Kominfo_No_17_Tahun_2018<br style="box-sizing:border-box">_JDIH_111017701.pdf</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Indonesia has 4 license classes: <br style="box-sizing:border-box">Penegak - Advanced<br style="box-sizing:border-box">Penggalang - General<br style="box-sizing:border-box">Siaga - Novice<br style="box-sizing:border-box">Pemula - Entry Level<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">The entry level license in Indonesia permits the use of 144 MHz and 430 MHz bands with 10 watts output after passing a straight forward rules, regulations and operating type exam lasting just 20 minutes.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">The exam appears to be set to meet the required amateur radio standards defined in ITU Recommendation M.1544-1. This can be downloaded from<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.itu.int/dms_pubrec/itu-r/rec/m/R-REC-M.1544-1-201509-I!!PDF-E.pdf" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://www.itu.int/<br style="box-sizing:border-box">dms_pubrec/itu-r/rec/m/<br style="box-sizing:border-box">R-REC-M.1544-1<br style="box-sizing:border-box">-201509-I!!PDF-E.pdf</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">This Entry Level exam is significantly below the level of the UK Foundation with the written exam taking just over a third of the time and without the need to do additional practical assessments.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">There is a sample online 20 question exam (in Google English) available for the Indonesian Entry Level Amateur Radio license, you are allowed up to 20 minutes to complete the exam <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=id&amp;u=https://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php%3Ftitle%3Dnzq5mjywlzum&amp;prev=search" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://translate.google.co.uk/<br style="box-sizing:border-box">translate?hl=en&amp;sl=id&amp;u=<br style="box-sizing:border-box">https://www.proprofs.com/<br style="box-sizing:border-box">quiz-school/story.php%3Ftitle%<br style="box-sizing:border-box">3Dnzq5mjywlzum&amp;prev=search</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">The Exam Question Pools and Answers for the Indonesian Pemula/Siaga, Penggalang and Penegak level licenses are available online for easy memorizing, PDFs can be downloaded from<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://amatirradio-indonesia.blogspot.co.uk/p/lisensi-amatir-radio.html" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">http://amatirradio-indonesia.blogspot.co.uk/p/lisensi-amatir-radio.html</a></p></div>