Preface

Abstract

As a national agency of aeronautics and space in Indonesia, LAPAN has a responsibility to advance space science in Indonesia and to encourage research collaborations in this field between Indonesia and international research institutes. This year, the Space Science Center of LAPAN starts to organize the International Symposium on Space Science (ISSS). We hope that the ISSS can be an annual symposium. This year, we organized this symposium on 25 September 2019. This one-day event is the first international symposium that aims to elaborate basic and applied researches on space science from Indonesia and abroad. In particular, as our theme for this symposium, we encourage researchers either from Indonesia or abroad to present their researches on space science in general for this symposium and we aspire to strengthen forecast operation in space weather and its application to the users in Indonesia.We were surprised! The participants attending this one-day symposium reach 107 peoples. The participants came from Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, and China. We design that the participants can present their work either in oral or poster types. Furthermore, the crucial factor for this symposium is that we facilitate the works from the participants that can be published at a journal with the peer-reviewed process. We have worked hard to process all accepted manuscripts reviewed by professionals and experts in the space science field. At least, one manuscript is under reviewed by one reviewer, and the handling editor decided whether a manuscript can be accepted or rejected mainly based on the reviewer’s comments. Of 35 manuscripts submitted to our symposium, 25 manuscripts can be suitable for scientific publication.As we mentioned before, the ISSS 2019 is the first symposium on space science held in Indonesia. We thank all participants who attend and support this symposium. Hopefully, we continue this symposium in the future. See you all in the future!