AirNav Indonesia and Telkom University Sign AI Research Pact; NOTAM AI Generator Deployment Still Under Exploration
Why It MattersAir navigation providers are moving AI into NOTAM drafting and controller rostering, but only as validated support tools, so human sign-off remains the gate for any safety-critical adoption.
AirNav Indonesia and Telkom University signed a cooperation agreement on October 8, 2026 in Jakarta, on the sidelines of the SATRIA 2026 forum. It covers laboratory optimization and joint research on artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, and follows a memorandum of understanding the two parties signed in 2024. Its scope also includes collaborative research and development, application of research results, and exchange of knowledge, expertise and information.
AirNav says one initiative is a prototype NOTAM AI Generator, begun in 2024 and soft-launched in 2025. According to AirNav, the AI can generate a NOTAM in about one minute before a validator checks it. AirNav technical director Zainal Arifin Harahap said AirNav is still exploring implementation of NOTAM AI. This is AirNav's own claim, and the statements reviewed give no test sample, error rate or evidence of routine operational use. A 2025 AirNav release had described NOTAM-AI v1 as ready for staff at headquarters and branches.
A second initiative is an AI-based system for scheduling air-traffic-control personnel, which AirNav says is still being developed. Harahap said the rules it must apply are that controllers may not work two hours non-stop and that the gap between shifts for one person may not be under 15 hours. AirNav disclosed no trial results for the roster tool.
Harahap said AI is a supporting tool and not a replacement for human decisions directly tied to flight safety. Telkom University vice rector Angga Rusdinar said research results are not applied directly in AirNav operations and may go through testing, evaluation and validation against criteria agreed by both parties. Telkom University also gave AirNav an award for its contribution to research collaboration, received by AirNav director Capt. Nurcahyo Utomo.
