The UK Space Agency’s International Partnership Programme (IPP) is designed to partner UK space expertise with governments and organisations in emerging and developing economies around the world to deliver a sustainable economic or societal benefit. Led by Inmarsat, the Indonesia IPP project was designed to test the benefits and challenges of expanding the use of satellite-based Vessel Monitoring Systems (VMS) to fishing boats currently not required to carry them – the overall goal is to improve the policing of illegal fishing and conservation areas and move the industry towards a more sustainable and profitable future.