SKY Perfect JSAT Corp. announced Thursday it will launch a channel next month in Indonesia that will show Japanese programs around the clock to popularize Japanese content in the growing economy and promote Japan itself.

As economies in Southeast Asia grow, there is a strong need for a wide variety of TV channels in the region, SKY Perfect JSAT President Shinji Takada said during a news conference in Tokyo.

"But . . . the presence of Japanese programs in the Asian market is small, so we were thinking to somehow come up with a way to provide a lot of great Japanese content every day to people in Asia," Takada said.