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Russia offers RI new war machines
Nani Afrida, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | National | Fri, January 16 2015

Russian ambassador M.Y. Galuzin has met with Indonesian Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu to offer several new weaponry systems, including Sukhoi SU-35 jet fighters and Type 636 submarines.

“Russia expects to continue military-technique and defense partnerships with Indonesia, just like last year,” Defense Ministry spokesperson Col. Djundan told The Jakarta Post in Jakarta on Friday.

He declined to give further information on Indonesia’s response to the offers, saying the ministry was still working to find the best new weapon systems for Indonesia.

Djundan said Russia was ready to provide several important weapon systems, including the Type 636 submarine, the Su-35 Sukhoi jet fighters and MI-17 helicopters. The country was also ready to transfer the technology.

Currently, Indonesia has two submarines that were bought from Germany. Indonesia has bought two more new submarines from South Korea, but they are still under construction.

The country needs at least 12 submarines to secure the country’s large sea territory.

It was reported earlier that President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Russian President Vladimir Putin had met during the APEC meeting in 2014 and that both countries agreed to resume their partnership in defense and military technologies.

Russia offers RI new war machines | The Jakarta Post

 

[Gakky]

The 35 Most Powerful Militaries In The World
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Spoiler: .

Indonesia #19​

- Manpower : 129,075,188
- Tanks : 374
- Aircraft : 381
- Nuclear Warheads : 0
- Aircraft Carriers : 0
- Submarines : 2
- Budget : 6,900,000,00

 

[MacanJawa]

what what

 

[Dante]

They must be joking right....

Army helps government to reach food self-sufficiency

Army Chief of Staff –KASAD, General Gatot Nurmantyo in a press conference of High leaders Meeting of Indonesian Army in Jakarta on Thursday said that the national resilience cannot be achieved without food resilience. Therefore, Indonesian Army or TNI AD will give assistance to the government to be able to materialize the food self-sufficiency so that the national resilience can be maintained. The Indonesia Army will deploy ~100k personnel to assist the agriculture sector to achieve food sufficiency within three years.

“The President has instructed the Indonesian Army to support the government in achieving the food self-sufficiency in the next three years. The efforts have to be made immediately because it is impossible to achieve the national resilience without food resilience and food resilience could only be achieved with food self-sufficiency. It is so urgent and we must follow it up because the development of science and economy will not tear our nation apart if we could maintain our nation as an agrarian nation.”

Moreover, General Gatot Nurmantyo also said if Indonesia becomes industrial country, Indonesia will be in danger. So he said, Indonesia must be optimistic to be able to reach the food self-sufficiency. He also hopes that Indonesia could export food.

The Army has signed a MoU with the Agriculture Ministry on the matter. The army would help fix the irrigation infrastructure and become the agriculture field advisors. The ministry was still short of 70k advisors. The army also assist the Public Work Ministry to construct a 300km road along the border of Kalimantan and Malaysia and developing 100 villages.


Army to join efforts to accelerate food sufficiency | Saham .WS
Army helps government to reach food self-sufficiency | Voice of Indonesia - VOI | RRI World Service Voice of Indonesia

 

[Jakartans@PkDef]

They must be joking right....

Nope, food sufficiency and border infrastructure is one of the key in building defensive capabilities.
Deploying army members as agriculture instructors to villages also strengthening our territorial security and providing intelligence for internal threats. This is what we have lost since the fall of Soeharto regime. We are once have a good intelligence network but the system is crumble along with the fall of Soeharto regime. When army intelligence personnel pulled out from the field and replaced by the pollice we lost our early warning detection tools and after that we have growing numbers of many clandestine terror network.

 

[Dante]

Nope, food sufficiency and border infrastructure is one of the key in building defensive capabilities.
Deploying army members as agriculture instructors to villages also strengthening our territorial security and providing intelligence for internal threats. This is what we have lost since the fall of Soeharto regime. We are once have a good intelligence network but the system is crumble along with the fall of Soeharto regime. When army intelligence personnel pulled out from the field and replaced by the pollice we lost our early warning detection tools and after that we have growing numbers of many clandestine terror network.

Oh I understand well enough about the importance of ISR in border/conflict zone

But I doesn't mean that the govt should divert armed forces AoR from military related duties into agricultural sector duties

This is bad management on the govt part

 

[Nike]

Russia ready to help Indonesia develop nuclear power plants
Selasa, 20 Januari 2015 01:03 WIB | 636 Views

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Russia is ready to assist Indonesia in developing nuclear power plants for development and peace purposes, Russian Ambassador to Indonesia Mikhail Galuzin said.

"Russia has experience in managing nuclear. Therefore, if requested, we are ready to help develop nuclear power plants and nuclear energy in Indonesia," he said at his residence here on Monday.

But he added that Russia will not interfere in the internal affairs of Indonesia to decide whether or not it will go ahead with the plan to build nuclear power plants.

"Of course, the government and people of Indonesia must decide the project themselves. Russia will always support it for peace purpose and in the interests of the general public," he said.

The plan to build nuclear power plants in Indonesia has sparked pros and cons even if the National Nuclear Energy Board (BATAN) has assured that nuclear in Indonesia will be used for peace and state development.

The result of a survey conducted by BATAN shows 70 percent of Indonesian people agree that nuclear energy in Indonesia must be developed in the interests of the public. However, the rest is opposed to the development of nuclear power plants on the ground they are prone to dangerous nuclear accident.

Minister of Technology Research and Higher Education M. Nasir said the people should not be worried about nuclear power plants because they serve as potential energy sources. (*)

Russia ready to help Indonesia develop nuclear power plants - ANTARA News

Russia supports Indonesia`s possible move to buy Sukhoi 35
Senin, 19 Januari 2015 20:23 WIB | 853 Views

Ambassador Mikhail Galuzin. (ANTARA)

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Russian government supports Indonesias wish to buy the multipurpose fighter jet Sukhoi 35 to enhance the countrys air force.

"We hope the agreement to buy the Su-35 can be realized. Military cooperation between the two countries was established a long time ago and we want to maintain that," Russian Ambassador to Indonesia Mikhail Galuzin said here on Monday.

The ambassador added that the Russian government was ready for the same if Indonesia decided to buy the Su-35.

In addition, Galuzin pointed out that there is also potential for cooperation to be achieved between the two nations in various fields, including construction, military, and nuclear energy.

"Russia believes that there is potential for cooperation with Indonesia in the construction and military sectors, among others. Also, if Indonesia is willing, we are ready to help in the development of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes," Galuzin stated.

The Indonesian government is still deliberating over whether it should buy new fighter jets to replace the old F-5 E Tigers.

Indonesian Military Commander Moeldoko listed several options for new fighter jets such as Sukhoi 35, Eurofighter Typhoon, SAAB JAS-39 Gripen, and F-16 Block 52+.

Currently, the country operates two types of Sukhois, the Su-27 and Su-30 MK2 that stand by at the Sultan Hasanuddin Airbase of Makassar.
(Uu.B019/INE/KR-BSR/S012)

Russia supports Indonesia`s possible move to buy Sukhoi 35 - ANTARA News

 

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Indonesian Police Tactical Unit (Gegana) in US Training Center for Advance Sniper Course in Moyock, North Carolina (formerly known as Blackwater). Thanks to the original uploader.

Oh I understand well enough about the importance of ISR in border/conflict zone

But I doesn't mean that the govt should divert armed forces AoR from military related duties into agricultural sector duties

This is bad management on the govt part

The govt will not use the active combatant for this duty, i mean they menpower will not drawn from units like Kostrad, Raiders or Marines battalions but as you know our Armed Forces has huge numbers of non-combatant duty members (Babinsa, etc) and they are about 30% of all our armed forces. So the army will draw from this resources. As for active combat battalions i think they will be put on short rotation in Army Goes to Village (ABRI masuk desa style).

 

[Nike]

Indonesian Ministry of Maritime Affair will get budget boost in 2015 fiscal year

Development of priority sector (Maritime) need around Rp11,9 triliun (952 million US dollar) for:
- Tol laut (National Maritime Freeways)
- Procurement and building patrol and navigation vessels
- Development of ports in around 77 locations to support Maritime freeways, Ports facilities, Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS), and Vessel Traffic Service (VTS)

Kementerian perhubungan | Ini Dia Rincian Program Menteri-menteri Jokowi Dengan Anggaran Terbesar

 

[Indos]

Boeing, Airbus, Korean Air Join To Bid For KF-X
Dec 29, 2014 Bradley Perrett | Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Super Hornet: USAF

SYDNEY – Airbus and Boeing are jointly attempting to unseat Lockheed Martin from South Korea’s KF-X indigenous fighter program, offering technology from Europe that could not be supplied from U.S. sources, industry officials say.

With Korean Airlines as the local partner, the pair are likely to be proposing the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet as a base design for the KF-X.

The defense ministry’s procurement office, the Defense Acquisition Program Agency (DAPA), issued a request for proposals for KF-X development on Dec. 23.

The Boeing-Airbus KF-X proposal should be an economical alternative to a fighter design of the defense ministry’s Agency for Defense Development (ADD) that Korea Aerospace Industries has been expected to build with technical assistance from Lockheed Martin.

The U.S. limits the technology that its companies can transfer abroad. South Korea lacks technology in many fields, such as active, electronically scanning radar. But Airbus, as an airframe company, is probably involved in the Boeing bid as a supplier of stealth know-how that the U.S. company is not authorized to provide.

A budget of 8.6991 trillion won ($7.9171 billion) approved by the finance ministry this month must be intended to pay for development of the ADD KF-X. But parliament has not yet authorized that spending or the launch of full-scale development, nor can it do so before it votes on the government’s 2016 budget next December. In the meantime, KAL looks likely to submit the cheaper alternative, based on the Super Hornet, to DAPA in response to its request for proposals.

Industry officials previously told Aviation Week that Boeing was proposing the Advanced Super Hornet, an update of the F/A-18E/F with a weapons pod and conformal tanks. Other industry officials said Boeing was working with Korean Airlines. Now different officials say that Airbus is also on the team.

This is not the first time that Boeing has offered non-U.S. technology to South Korea. When proposing an advanced F-15 version called the Silent Eagle for the separate F-X Phase 3 fighter program, Boeing suggested technology transfer from Israel Aerospace Industries, an industry official says. Lockheed Martin won F-X Phase 3 with the F-35 and in return is supposed to back KF-X development.


Boeing, Airbus, Korean Air Join To Bid For KF-X | Defense content from Aviation Week

The APPROVED KFX/IFX airframe looks more stealthy than F-18 SH and I dont think Lokheed participation on KFX/IFX can be cut easily since it is linked with South Korea F-35 acquisition that has been already finalized. If necessary technology cannot be taken from LM so there will be impact on F-35 South Korea acquisition.

Su 35 offering from Russia needs to address our need in KFX/IFX program, it should be related one another to make it as a prospective deal as Eurofighter's offering to us.

 

[Nike]

French Shipyard OCEA Launched the OSV 190 Offshore Survey Vessel for Indonesian Navy

In December 2014, OCEA, based in Les Sables d'Olonne on the Western coast of France, launched the first of two "OSV 190 SC-WB" Offshore Survey Vessels ordered by Indonesia for the navy (TNI-AL). OCEA won the contract among 9 bidders (3 from South Korea, 1 from Germany, 4 from France including OCEA and 1 from the Netherlands) following an international tender launched in 2011.


The first of two OSV 190 SC-WB built by OCEA for the Indonesian Navy (TNI-AL). Picture: OCEA


After analyzing the responses offered by each candidates, the Indonesian Ministry of Defense down-selected 3 companies to participate in the final negotiations: 2 from South Korea and OCEA, the only candidate to offer an aluminum vessel.

OCEA was selected as the winner of the tender and signed a contract with the Indonesian Navy on 1 August 2012. The contract includes the delivery of two vessels fully fitted for oceanographic and hydrographic research missions as well as associated logistical support.

The OCEA offer includes a funding agreement with France. Agreement between the banks and the French Ministry of Finance resulted in the keel laying of the first vessel in October 2013. The sister-ship will be launched in Q2 2015.


The first of two OSV 190 SC-WB built by OCEA for the Indonesian Navy (TNI-AL) is launched in the water in France last month. Picture: OCEA


These ships are designed to study the waters and sea-bottom of the Indonesian archipelago and are therefore equipped with the most advanced technical and scientific equipment:
» An AUV (autonomous underwater vehicle by Kongsberg) capable of performing missions autonomously.
» An ROV (remotely operated underwater robot by ECA) which is involved in specific tasks.
» An 8 meter hydrographic craft equipped for data gathering along the coast in shallow areas. Designed by OCEA the two craft (one for each vessel) will be made in Indonesia.
» Several integrated sensors (fitted below the keel at the bow) allow data recovering and analysis.

Integrated logistics support associated with the contract consist in:
» Technical Documentation for operation and maintenance.
» Crew Training: Technical and Scientific (40 sailors per ship).
» Maintenance training (16 people per ship).
» On site technical assistance.

OCEA's offer also included a specific formation: A Master's degree in hydrographic science for an Indonesian engineer at ENSTA in Brest (Engineering school specialized in science and technology of the sea).

For the realization of this contract, OCEA works in partnership with the French Navy to optimize the positioning and the selection of scientific equipment and also to assist in the scientific training of crews and technical assistance to Indonesia.

These two ships are the first of an ambitious global project undertaken by the Indonesian Navy, which aims to develop its oceanographic and hydrographic fleet; OCEA's goal is to become Indonesian Navy's partner in the long term. In a country of more than 17 000 islands, the need is obviously very important as was shown during the recent operation for the crashed Air Asia passenger plane. The desire to develop maritime activity in the country has also been confirmed by the new President Jokowi.

OSV 190 SC-WB Mission:
The OCEA OSV 190 SC-WB is designed for maritime oceanographic and hydrographic research missions such as:
» hydrographic surveys.
» oceanographic studies.
» geophysical studies.
» Fisheries surveys.

To meet the multi-mission operational requirements, these ships offer the following performance and characteristics:
» Excellent sea-keeping.
» High maneuverability capabilities, stabilization and dynamic positioning.
» Endurance: 20 days.
» Ability to launch and recover research equipment and tele-operated robots.
» Ability to retrieve, store, and analyze samples (water, fish, sediment ...).
» Lifting and towing capacity for a wide variety of specific equipment.
» Capacity to answer scientific requirements continuously (24/24, 7/7).
» Divers support.
» Ability to carry shipping containers (containerized missions).

Main Characteristics of the OSV 190 SC-WB:
» Overall Length: 60.10 m
» Width: 11.50 m
» Draft: 3.50 m
» diesel capacity: 135,000 l
» Water capacity: 35 000 l
» Maximum speed: 14.0 knots (2 x MTU 8V4000M53 engines)
» Crew: 40 sailors
» Passengers and VIP Capacity: 11 people

French Shipyard OCEA Launched the OSV 190 Offshore Survey Vessel for Indonesian Navy

 

[Nike]

More Marder for Indonesian Army, PT PINDAD confirmed their cooperation with Rheinmetal industries to make modified works for Marder IFV/APC/Command vehicle/Ambulance variants. Details will follow later, though in Bahasa Indonesia

 

[Nike]

Indonesian PKR Frigate module, ready to be assembled, credit to Ambalat@kaskus.co.id

Komandan Pusat Penerbangan TNI AL (Danpuspenerbal), Laksamana Pertama TNI Sigit Setiyanta (tengah) melakukan salam komando bersama pejabat lama Komandan Pangkalan Udara TNI AL (Lanudal) Juanda, Kolonel Laut (P) Sujadmiko (kanan) dan pejabat yang baru Kolonel Laut (P) Sisyani Ja'far (kiri) saat upacara serah terima jabatan di Base Ops Lanudal Juanda di Sidoarjo, Jawa Timur, Kamis (22/1). Kolonel Laut (P) Sisyani Ja'far yang sebelumnya menjabat Direktur Operasional Puspernerbal menggantikan Kolonel Laut (P) Sujadmiko yang akan menjabat Komandan Pangkalan TNI AL Sabang. (ANTARA FOTO/Suryanto)

 

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Indonesian corvette damages sonar dome in search for AirAsia aircraft
Ridzwan Rahmat, Singapore - IHS Jane's Navy International
21 January 2015

The newest of four Indonesian Navy Diponegoro (Sigma)-class corvettes, KRI Frans Kaisiepo. Source: Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding
Key Points

• Indonesia's Diponegoro (Sigma)-class corvette Frans Kaisiepo suffered damage while en route to assist in QZ8501 recovery efforts
• The corvette has entered drydock for repair work

An Indonesian Navy (Tentara Nasional Indonesia Angkatan Laut: TNI-AL) Diponegoro (Sigma)-class corvette sustained damage to its sonar dome while underway to join the search for the AirAsia airliner QZ8501, a TNI-AL source confirmed to IHS Jane's on 21 January.

The vessel, KRI Frans Kaisiepo (368), was on its way to the Java Sea to relieve sister ship KRI Sultan Hasanuddin (366) on 4 January. The TNI-AL has been contributing assets to the multinational effort to recover the aircraft, which crashed into the sea on 28 December 2014 during a flight from Surabaya to Singapore.

IHS Jane's understands that the 1,700-tonne corvette ran aground while navigating the Surabaya Western Shipping Route (Alur Pelayaran Barat Surabaya, or APBS), a busy channel off the Port of Tanjung Perak.

According to IHS Jane's Fighting Ships , Frans Kaisiepo is equipped with the Thales Kingclip hull-mounted sonar system. The vessel, constructed by Dutch shipbuilder Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding (then Royal Schelde), is the newest of the Diponegoro class and was inducted into the TNI-AL in March 2009. The service operates a class of four ships, deploying in rotation since 2009 to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) operation off Lebanon.

An official from the TNI-AL's public affairs office told IHS Jane's that while there has been damage to the sonar dome, the system's cylindrical array does not seem to have been affected. "The vessel's underwater search and anti-submarine capabilities should be functioning as usual," said the official.

Frans Kaisiepo has been in drydock at state-owned shipbuilder PT PAL's Surabaya shipyard since 5 January, where it is undergoing further assessments. The TNI-AL was not able to say when the vessel is expected to resume service.

 

[Nike]

US Ready to Support Indonesian Military Modernization Efforts, and they offered F-16 Block 60 to pit against Su-35 in tender for F-5 replacement programme



Amerika Serikat sulit embargo militer Indonesia - ANTARA News