Hyundai Motor Group Signs MOU with Nusantara Capital City Authority to Establish Indonesian Ecosystem for AAM

Hyundai Motor Group recent­ly signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing (MOU) with the Nusan­tara Cap­i­tal City Author­i­ty to explore an Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) ecosys­tem in Indone­sia, reports a press release.

The sign­ing was attend­ed by Jai­won Shin, Pres­i­dent and Head of Hyundai Motor Group’s Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty Divi­sion, with Indone­sian gov­ern­ment offi­cials, includ­ing Bam­bang Susantono, Head of the Nusan­tara Cap­i­tal City Author­i­ty. The lat­ter will become a spe­cial agency tasked with man­ag­ing and gov­ern­ing the city of Nusan­tara, the new and future cap­i­tal of Indone­sia locat­ed on East Kali­man­tan.

(l to r) Jai­won Shin, Pres­i­dent and Head of Hyundai Motor Group’s Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty Divi­sion; Bam­bang Susantono, Head of the Nusan­tara Cap­i­tal City Author­i­ty

The MoU aims to intro­duce AAM as part of a smart mobil­i­ty ecosys­tem in the new cap­i­tal city that Indone­sia is work­ing to estab­lish. The Group plans to devel­op a roadmap and review the con­cept of con­sol­i­dat­ed mobil­i­ty for ground and air while car­ry­ing out an AAM demon­stra­tion project and test flights.

Bam­bang Susantono, Head of the Cap­i­tal City Nusan­tara Author­i­ty, com­ment­ed, “Imple­ment­ing advanced air mobil­i­ty in Nusan­tara is in line with the city’s spir­it of being a ‘liv­ing lab­o­ra­to­ry’ in Indone­sia, open to cre­at­ing a cul­ture of new learn­ing, work­ing and lifestyle as part of this smart and sus­tain­able city.”

Indone­sia, which is the largest avi­a­tion mar­ket in South­east Asia, con­sists of more than 18,000 islands, mak­ing it dif­fi­cult to devel­op land trans­porta­tion.

Graph­ic Image of Cap­i­tal’s Futur­is­tic Look

The author­i­ty expects to help improve the mobil­i­ty of islanders by effi­cient­ly build­ing an AAM ecosys­tem that utilis­es Indone­si­a’s high-lev­el avi­a­tion infra­struc­ture and tech­no­log­i­cal capa­bil­i­ties.

The Group also plans to build a glob­al AAM ecosys­tem beyond the SEA region based on its achieve­ments in Indone­sia.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.hyundaimotorgroup.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nusantara_Capital_City_Authority

(top pic: graph­ic Image of Nusan­tara)