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Public don't care about KFX with the same reason of why they didn't even know or care that there's things called "Leopard tank", "MQ reaper drone", "Diesel Submarine", "BVR missile", "ICBM", "PDW", "MRAP" etc etc when you ask them if they want these trillions of rupiahs worth of weapons should be converted into free food, ofc they will say "yes please". Why? because they are PLEBS, literally awam people who knows not of this "world", they will always be less informed of these shit, you might as well melt down the tanks, scraps the jets, and kilo-ing the submarines if everything should be "citizens only care about food so we dont need to care about strategic weaponry", there's state and there's citizen interest, and for god's sake this isn't socioeconomic discussion.
Politics work this way, for christ sake. And weapons procurement is all related to politics and budget policy of the state and Linked to socio economy of the state affairs. And are you sure with KFX we can secure our National interest and to resolve what our Air Force currently needed, meanwhile let us being at stake with the whims of Korean (who in the style doing their own research on most of key technology of KFX needed without Indonesia involvement ) ? I would not dwell again as i had posted a long post about that.
Let me be Frank, our Air Force currently needed immediate Airframe to address their lack of Air frame to do conduct their jobs even for the most basic routine peace patrol in most areas needed. Severe usage of the current Airframe in Air Force inventory let to the advance of wear and tear of the already old Airframe (F16 , Hawk we are use as workhorse all come from 90 decade) we already had and if we wait for KFX / IFX program to commence and going through their masa production phase in circa (2027 onward) the current availability of air frame of most our fighter jet will drop down in the next five years ahead. The case is happened on engine failure of the Hawk last month. So what is your solution to address such problem? To let TNI AU just doing what their doing right now and postpone all of the procurement of fighter while waiting for whose know KFX/IFX available to Indonesian bidding in the future and wearing our fighter workhorse until nothing left the bones in next five to Ten years ahead?