National Research and Innovation Agency

The National Research and Innovation Agency, known by its Indonesian initials BRIN, is a cabinet-level agency of the Indonesian government formed in 2019. It began as an agency attached to the Ministry of Research and Technology, was separated into a non-ministerial agency answering directly to the President on 28 April 2021, and gained cabinet-level status on 23 August 2021 through Presidential Decree No. 78/2021, becoming the sole national research agency of Indonesia. Its creation absorbed older research bodies, including the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology, the National Nuclear Energy Agency and the National Institute of Aeronautics and Space, known as LAPAN. For spaceflight, the work of LAPAN now sits in the Research Organization for Aeronautics and Space inside BRIN, so BRIN is the body that carries Indonesian civil space research. Defense and security research falls outside its scope.