AudioBlog: UFOs in Indonesia

Wherever there are UFOs, there are UFO enthusiasts, and since there
are UFOs everywhere, UFO enthusiasts can be found everywhere as
well. This week we’ll look at Indonesia, where members of that
region’s largest UFO organization have recently offered their
opinion to the local press on the upcoming Pentagon UAP Task Force
unclassified report due to come out later this month.
An article written by Wulan Kusuma Wardhani and posted online
for The Jakarta Post on Monday, June 7, 2021, is headlined,
“Not a cult: Indonesia’s biggest UFO-community BETA-UFO weighs in
on U.S. government report.” The two people speaking for the
organization are 55-year-old Nur Agustinas and 48-year-old Anugerah
Sentot Sudono. Agustinus was a cofounder of BETA-UFO IN 1997 along
with Bayu Yunantias Amus and several others, and Sudono is
described as a “senior member” in the article. BETA is an acronym
for “Benda Terbang Aneh,” which is Indonesian for “Unidentified
Flying Object.” The term was introduced in the 1960s by Jacob
Salutan, founder of the Indonesian National Institute of
Aeronautics and Space. Salutan was a vice air marshal in the
Indonesian Air Force and started Studi UFO Indonesia (Indonesian
UFO Studies/SUFOI). He wrote two books on UFOs: “UFO: Salah Satu
Masalah Dunia Masa Kini” (UFO: One of the Current World
Problems) and “Menyingkap Rahasia Piring Terbang” (Unveiling
the Secrets of UFOs). As of this writing, SUFOI appears to be
inactive. Read more