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[Bhayangkara]

what does it mean exactly?

If you means is actually meaning of Bhayangkara word, sorry I have no idea about that.. But I choose this name as my ID is from the name of our Majapahit kingdom's elit force grup, just it..

Edit: Upss,, @pr1v4t33r thank you so much for your explanation Sir..
@halupridol yes,, so it's mean something dangerous/to fear, sorry my mistake..

 

[Bhayangkara]

Talking about integrating the system, I believe people from LEN or INTI has better knowledge than me. I am not an engineer honestly, but we do have capability to integrate different platform like the way we put Yakhoon missile into a western platform and system and has a successful result on the missile fire testing.

And about further technicality of this attack helicopter, well I don't study too much on this, but as far as I know, it is the latest version of Apache and only USA that has operated this version so far. Furthermore, if it has naval attack capability, so it will be a bit wasteful if it is not made like the British version to ease the operation using naval platform, even though it still can attack ships by using our coastal line as an operation base. Dont forget its ability to control UAV like predators and its operation range which is longer than D version.

Yes it's true,, with the experience of our engineers who has successfully integrated Russia's yakhont missiles into western platform and systems, I think its not too difficult for our engineers with supported from the third parties to integrating between the two Link's, even both of which is have Nato compatible..
And yes, now I understand why the TNI intends to put some of this Guardians in N***** islands, is because they have maritime recon capability., Thanks sir..

p.s.: mohon maaf buat rekan semuanya klo merasa tdk nyaman, sy tdk bisa multi-quote soalnya sy OL pake hp, jadi terpaksa sy harus posting satu-satu..

 

[pr1v4t33r]

6 new units of Grob G120 TP-A basic training aircraft arrived in Adisutjipto airbase (3/5/2015). In total we have 24 Grob G120 for training purpose.

defense-studies.blogspot.com/2015/06/tni-au-tambah-grob.html

 

[Zarvan]

• Govt may skip tradition with TNI chief choice
  

The government may bend the unwritten rotation rule for the top post in the Indonesian Military (TNI), a tradition that was implemented after the fall of the New Order regime.

Although President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has remained tight-lipped about the successor to current TNI commander Gen. Moeldoko, who will retire in July, Vice President Jusuf Kalla has questioned the need to continue the tradition, stressing that the rotation pattern was not mandatory.

“There is no law specifying whether now is the turn for the Army, the Air Force or the Navy. The President will, of course, select someone highly capable,” Kalla said on the sidelines of a visit to South Sulawesi on the weekend as quoted by Antara news agency.

Quoting the 2004 law on the TNI, Kalla went on to say that the only mandatory requirement was that the person was a TNI chief of staff from one of the three forces.

“As the condition [to rotate the post] is unwritten, the only requirement [of the next TNI commander] is therefore that the person is a TNI chief of staff who is a four-star general,” Kalla concluded.

Kalla’s remarks reiterated previous statements by Jokowi’s ministers, including Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Tedjo Edhy Purdijatno and Cabinet Secretary Andi Widjajanto, who both concurred that the next TNI chief would not necessarily be from the Air Force, which was to have the next turn after the Army, according to the rotation pattern.

Moeldoko succeeded Adm. Agus Suhartono of the Navy in 2013, following the tradition.

The tradition of rotating the military’s top post among the forces was implemented after the fall of the New Order regime, when Army generals dominated the position as head of the then Indonesian Armed Forces (ABRI), constituting the three services of the TNI and the National Police.

In the spirit of the Reform Era, the succeeding presidents after Soeharto have continued the pattern to ensure harmony among the forces, excluding the National Police, which have become an independent entity from the military.

If Jokowi sticks to the tradition, the baton should be passed to Air Force chief of staff Air Chief Marshall Agus Supriatna.

But with his aides saying the government may not stick with the tradition, Jokowi may instead appoint one of the other two chiefs of staff as the next TNI chief.

With the President’s maritime vision, he may consider appointing Navy chief Adm. Ade Supandi the next military commander.

Jokowi could also pick Army chief of staff Gen. Gatot Nurmantyo, although the choice would seem like a setback from the reform spirit of previous presidents.

Tubagus Hasanuddin, a lawmaker on House of Representatives Commission I overseeing defense, recalled the reason for the tradition being implemented during the leadership of former president Abdurrahman “Gus Dur” Wahid: To reform the military.

“Thus, severing the tradition means we’ll be going back to the New Order Era because back then we agreed to practice it as part of the reform agenda,” said the ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) politician.

Referring to the TNI Law, which upholds equal opportunity for all forces, Hasanuddin emphasized that “one way to do so was by rotating the top position at the TNI”.

The President is expected to submit the name of his next chosen TNI commander to the House before the current sitting session ends on July 10 for a confirmation hearing with lawmakers from House Commission I.

Lawmakers, including speakers of the House, said they would leave the decision to Jokowi, although a few of them, such as deputy speaker Fadli Zon, have reminded Jokowi of the consequences if he should decide to ignore the rotation pattern.

“It is up to the President to chose who among the forces’ chiefs of staff will be the next TNI commander. He will not violate any laws if he wants to choose randomly. But he must be ready to face the consequences for not sticking with tradition,” said Fadli, a politician from the Gerindra Party

: Govt may skip tradition with TNI chief choice | The Jakarta Post

 

[toke115]

Den Bravo 90

 

[Indos]

Air Force Exercise "Jalak Sakti 2015"

 

[anas_nurhafidz]

today in jakarta

 

[anas_nurhafidz]

Again

"somali pirates" just getting closer to our LPD

Tiga Kapal Perompak Hanya Berani Show of Force | Selalu Ada Yang Baru

i told u to remember this

 

[Indos]

This one, Indonesian armed forces vs Somalian pirate. Just look there, Indonesian armed force prefers close combat, boat vs boat combat, not using CIWS or shooting from big ship when you can always hide. Our soldiers seems wanting to make them surrender first ( not just killing another human like killing pigs), and in the end it ends up they need to fire and killed 4 pirates at Somalian small boat.

 

[Reashot Xigwin]

Indonesia Inaugurates Special Force to Fight Terrorism
By Aditya Surya
2015-06-09

Gen. Moeldoko presides over an inauguration ceremony in Jakarta for the Joint Special Operations Command, June 9, 2015.
BenarNews

Indonesia on Tuesday launched an elite counterterrorism force that extends the military’s reach into an area reserved for police until now.

The Joint Special Operations Command brings together “highly skilled” army, navy and air force units and is designed to mobilize and deploy quickly to any part of the archipelagic country, according to Indonesian military commander Gen. Moeldoko.

"The force is ready to be moved to the rest of Indonesia in the shortest possible time and at any time," Moeldoko told reporters Tuesday.

The force comprises 90 people “with high ability and standards,'' Moeldoko said.

It debuted Tuesday with a military exercise in Jakarta that illustrated its mission “to destroy terrorism and maintain security and stability in the region in the context of military operations other than war."

"This exercise aims to address the threat of terrorism on a massive scale," Moeldoko said.

Command of the joint force will rotate every six months among its various component forces, he added.

It will work with Densus 88, the elite police counterterrorism squad, and will deploy by direct request from Densus 88 or by presidential orders.

‘Essential’

The new force is essential in Indonesia "not only to solve the problem of terrorism but also to [address] other issues related to security," Tedjo Edhy Purdijatno, coordinating minister for Political, Legal and Human Rights, told BenarNews.

It may also be used to escort officials or death-row inmates, he said.

Before its official debut the joint force trained for weeks in Poso, a remote and mountainous area in Central Sulawesi province with a high concentration of militants, Moeldoko noted.

During those exercises, a key aide to Indonesia’s most wanted terrorist, Santoso, was killed.

Daeng Koro, whose real name was Sabar Subagio, was a strategist and arms procurer for the Eastern Indonesia Mujahideen (MIT), and he served as a liaison to radical groups in Makassar, South Sulawesi, authorities allege.

"The arrest of terrorists and supporters of IS [the Islamic State] shows that Indonesia is vulnerable to the threat of terror," Tedjo Edhy said.

According to the National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT), at least 540 Indonesians have joined IS ranks in the Middle East. Government officials have warned, too, that jihadists returning home from combat tours in Iraq and Syria could import terrorism.

Unresolved

Until now, TNI has had no formal role in the fight against terrorism, and some activists see the change as an unwelcome expansion of the military into domestic affairs.

Under the New Order of President Suharto, the military was omnipresent in civilian life and was used to perpetuate a regime that lasted 32 years.

"Terror was given to those who opposed government policies. At the same time, kidnapping, murder, and shooting of activists continued,” Krisbiantoro, vice-chairman of the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (KontraS), told BenarNews.

He cited the military shootings of student activists during riots and demonstrations immediately before and after Suharto’s fall in 1998.

To date, no high-level military official has been prosecuted for those deaths, and the government has suggested that families accept reconciliation instead, according to KontraS and the Indonesian Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM).

"Why would the military be given a greater role if until now the Indonesian government has not managed to resolve cases of human rights violations involving the military?" Krisbiantoro said.

Eric Hiariej, a lecturer at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, said the military's role should be limited so as not to repeat past mistakes.

"We must defend the values of democracy that we have fought hard to earn," he told BenarNews.

Indonesia Inaugurates Special Force to Fight Terrorism

 

[anas_nurhafidz]

FOTO: Panglima TNI Tinjau Uji Coba Alat Komunikasi...

 

[pr1v4t33r]

Widodo's diplomacy : Indonesia seeks South Pacific clout
Indonesia recently blew up a Chinese fishing boat for illegally fishing in its territorial waters. The country's president, Joko Widodo, has strengthened control of illegal fishing in order to protect marine resources and stood up to China.

The country is checking the moves of powerful neighbors to its north and south -- specifically China and Australia. Widodo has also moved to partner with countries in the South Pacific that are becoming close to China and Australia, such as the often-overlooked Papua New Guinea. Widodo aims to make Indonesia a maritime power.

"It would be great if the sunken boat becomes a good residence for fish," Susi Pudjiastuti, maritime affairs and fisheries minister, said May 20. She explained the seized boat had been blown up and sunk with a weaker charge of explosives than usual.

Big ambitions

Pudjiastuti announced that 41 vessels had been sunk. Blowing up captured foreign ships has been done in the past as well, but destroying a Chinese fishing boat was a first.

Widodo's administration wants to turn Indonesia into the world's "Maritime Axis." It is expanding port infrastructure and navigation routes in order to link the country's islands --which dot an expanse of ocean some 5,000km from east to west -- with foreign industry. Furthermore, its measures to control and sink illegal fishing boats in order to prevent poaching and cultivate healthy stocks of seafood, are drawing attention.

Indonesia has not taken sides in the South China Sea territorial dispute. Some member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are at odds with China about maritime territory in that sea. Instead, Indonesia has exerted influence as a "mediator," in part out of a desire to maintain healthy relations with China, its largest trading partner. Perhaps for that reason, the Widodo administration had not previously indicated that Chinese vessels were targets in its drive to sink foreign fishing boats.

The Widodo administration has also handed down death sentences to 12 foreigners accused of drug crimes, including two Australians that authorities executed, underscoring the country's sovereignty and national interests. The executions were carried out despite strong calls for restraint from the United Nations and the Australian government, which recalled its ambassador to Indonesia in response.

However, the Australian and Chinese response to Indonesia's hardline stance was restrained. Prior to the executions, Widodo's diplomatic advisors' view was that "ties with Australia are mutually necessary in numerous fields" and that "the effects of the executions would be short-lived." In reality, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott moved to douse the fire, stating on the day of the executions that it was important to continue relations at the heads-of-state level.

China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing expressed "grave concerns" on May 21, the day the boat was sunk. On May 28, Vice Premier Liu Yandong held talks with Widodo in Jakarta and confirmed stronger ties in such areas as infrastructure development. Even in Australia and China, the need to keep an eye on Indonesia has become evident.

Sweet spot

The reason China and Australia attach such importance to Indonesia is its strategic location. The large and small islands that comprise Indonesia are positioned between China, which aims to go south via various ASEAN regions, and Australia, which is home to U.S. military posts.

On a visit of Papua New Guinea, President Widodo shakes hands with Governor-General Ogio, right, on May 11. (Photo courtesy of Indonesia government)


On his inaugural visit to Papua New Guinea on May 11-12, Widodo told the country's prime minister, Peter O'Neill, Indonesia is an ally. Furthermore, Widodo conveyed that Indonesia wants to participate in the Melanesian Spearhead Group. The group includes Papua New Guinea, as well as surrounding countries and regions, including the Solomon Islands, Fiji and Vanuatu. At a speech given during a visit to Sydney on May 14, O'Neill welcomed Widodo's unprecedented offer, and said, "[If realized,] it is a historically important step forward. It would improve relations with the 11 million Melanesian people living in Indonesia."

Papua New Guinea occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, the second largest island in the world, Indonesia occupies the western half. Like Australia, Papua New Guinea belongs to the Commonwealth of Nations; its head of state is Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. Most of its residents are Christians. With a population of 7.5 million people, it has more than eight times as many people as Fiji, the region's second largest country with a population of 900,000.

In 2014, Papua New Guinea began producing and exporting liquefied natural gas, and Japan relies on it for 5% of its LNG imports. Thanks to LNG, the country's gross domestic product is expected to grow nearly 20% from a year earlier in 2015. A second LNG plant is expected to begin shipments around 2021. China and others are increasingly interested in Papua New Guinea because of its strategic position in this resource-rich region. In Australia's budget for fiscal 2015, which runs from July to June 2016, Papua New Guinea supplanted Indonesia as the top recipient of foreign aid.

The part of the island of New Guinea occupied by Indonesia is home to one of the world's largest copper and gold mines, and the country's flagship LNG production base. Its resources help sustain the nation's 250 million people. However, the majority of the 4 million people who live on the island are of indigenous Melanesian descent. With the flames of an independence movement smoldering, Indonesian presidents have been cautious about visiting Papua New Guinea as a foreign country, whose residents and cuture are similar. Suharto and Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono each visited just only once.

Deeper friendships

Widodo also confirmed during his visit to Papua New Guinea that Indonesia would supply electricity to and develop resources in the country. Papua New Guinea's Governor-General Michael Ogio and around 150 businessmen also strengthened friendships and laid the groundwork for public-private collaborations.

"Resource development in the vicinity of the national border has been largely untouched, so there is considerable potential on both economic and political fronts," suggested a resource analyst in Jakarta.

The U.S. is surely paying attention to the movements surrounding New Guinea Island. Until now, the Indonesian government has tightly controlled media access to the island. According to a person involved with a nongovernmental organization, this is "in order to suppress a leader in the independence movement and conceal resource exploitation." But the day prior to his visit to Papua New Guinea, Widodo announced these restrictions would be eased.

Australian and European media stepped up their criticism of Indonesia on human rights grounds as a result of the execution of the foreign drug smugglers at the end of April. The move to ease restrictions appears to have been reconciliatory. There are also rumblings of a Widodo visit to the U.S., home of resource company Freeport-McMoRan, which is developing one of the world's largest copper mines on the island.

Indonesia, Australia and the islands of the South Pacific are hot spots. Whoever controls these islands is said to control the Pacific. The battle for influence in the area has been rekindled. Unlike in the past, Indonesia and China are in the mix this time. Widodo's diplomatic strategy in the ocean is steadily coming into view.

Widodo's diplomacy: Indonesia seeks South Pacific clout- Nikkei Asian Review

 

[Indos]

@madokafc seems to have a big and personal project going on............

 

[pr1v4t33r]

Indonesia looks into claims Australia paid people smugglers to turn back

Indonesia is investigating claims that Australia paid people smugglers to turn their boat back to Indonesian waters in a development which, if proved, it would consider “very concerning”.

The probe came after reports emerged that an Australian border protection official allegedly paid the captain and crew of a boat carrying about 65 asylum seekers about US$30,000 ($39,000) to turn back to Indonesia in late May.

“We are currently investigating this. If this is true, it is very concerning,” an Indonesian foreign affairs ministry spokesman, Arrmanatha Nasir, told the Guardian on Thursday, adding that the information was based on initial interviews with migrants on the boat and one crew member.

Nasir said Indonesia would consider further action if the claim was proven true, including lodging a protest note with Australia or summoning its diplomats in Jakarta.

Peter Dutton invokes 'on-water' secrecy over claim of payments to boat crew

The captain and five crew of the boat, which was carrying migrants from Bangladesh, Burma and Sri Lanka, told local Indonesian police they were each paid US$5,000 to turn back to Indonesia, Agence France-Presse reported.

The migrants – which include women and children – came ashore on the remote island of Rote, in eastern Indonesia, in late May, after they were intercepted en route to New Zealand by the Australian navy.

The claims about the payments were aired in reports by Radio New Zealand and Fairfax Media this week.

Rote’s police chief, Hidayat, who goes by one name, was quoted by Fairfax as saying the cash “was in $100 bank notes” and wrapped in six black plastic bags.

“I saw the money with my own eyes,” he was quoted as saying by Agence France-Presse. “This is the first time I’d heard Australian authorities making payments to boat crew.”

The migrants have reportedly supported the claims, but the Guardian has been unable to verify the allegations independently.

The Australian immigration minister, Peter Dutton, said on Thursday the claims had not been substantiated. But he did not provide more details, saying the government has a policy of not commenting on operational matters.

“There’s obviously, particularly in relation to this venture, there’s still discussions of an operational matter, of an operational nature going on, so we don’t comment in relation to any of these,” Dutton said in an interview with 2GB radio.

“I think it’s fair to say that Indonesian police officers sort of recanted a bit from some of those comments in the last 24 hours or so, but the customs border protection officers do an amazing job. They do it in difficult circumstances at sea and our objective is to try and make sure we can stop these boats, but in relation to operational matters we just don’t comment.”

Dutton’s remarks were his most expansive on the matter.

The minister simply answered “no” when asked at a media conference on Tuesday whether officials had “recently” paid the crew and captain of a boat carrying asylum seekers. When asked the broader follow-up question – “Has Australia ever done that?” – Dutton said: “It’s been a longstanding policy of the government not to comment on on-water matters.”

The Coalition has introduced harsh immigration measures, including a boat turn-back policy, to stop the influx of asylum seekers who often made a perilous sea journey to escape political persecution or poverty.

The hardline policies – and the secrecy that surrounds boat turn-backs – are a regular topic of political debate in Australia, but the government argues its stance has popular support and has prevented boats arriving.

Labor and the Greens called on the government on Wednesday to be straightforward when answering questions about the payment allegations.

Fairfax Media reported that three officers from the Australian federal police (AFP) were due to visit Rote on Thursday, based on comments by Ronaldzi Agus, a spokesman for the East Nusa Tenggara provincial police office.

An AFP spokesman, when asked whether the officers would inquire about the payment claims, told the Guardian: “The AFP works cooperatively with the Indonesian national police on a range of transnational crime issues, including people smuggling.”

The relationship between Jakarta and Canberra has come under strain in recent months after Indonesia executed two Australians who were members of the Bali Nine drug-smuggling group. Australia recalled its ambassador, Paul Grigson, from Jakarta after the deaths in late April. Grigson returned to Jakarta on Monday.

Indonesia looks into claims Australia paid people smugglers to turn back | Australia news | The Guardian

 

[Zarvan]

Indonesia Inaugurates Special Force to Fight Terrorism
By Aditya Surya
2015-06-09

Gen. Moeldoko presides over an inauguration ceremony in Jakarta for the Joint Special Operations Command, June 9, 2015.
BenarNews

Indonesia on Tuesday launched an elite counterterrorism force that extends the military’s reach into an area reserved for police until now.

The Joint Special Operations Command brings together “highly skilled” army, navy and air force units and is designed to mobilize and deploy quickly to any part of the archipelagic country, according to Indonesian military commander Gen. Moeldoko.

"The force is ready to be moved to the rest of Indonesia in the shortest possible time and at any time," Moeldoko told reporters Tuesday.

The force comprises 90 people “with high ability and standards,'' Moeldoko said.

It debuted Tuesday with a military exercise in Jakarta that illustrated its mission “to destroy terrorism and maintain security and stability in the region in the context of military operations other than war."

"This exercise aims to address the threat of terrorism on a massive scale," Moeldoko said.

Command of the joint force will rotate every six months among its various component forces, he added.

It will work with Densus 88, the elite police counterterrorism squad, and will deploy by direct request from Densus 88 or by presidential orders.

‘Essential’

The new force is essential in Indonesia "not only to solve the problem of terrorism but also to [address] other issues related to security," Tedjo Edhy Purdijatno, coordinating minister for Political, Legal and Human Rights, told BenarNews.

It may also be used to escort officials or death-row inmates, he said.

Before its official debut the joint force trained for weeks in Poso, a remote and mountainous area in Central Sulawesi province with a high concentration of militants, Moeldoko noted.

During those exercises, a key aide to Indonesia’s most wanted terrorist, Santoso, was killed.

Daeng Koro, whose real name was Sabar Subagio, was a strategist and arms procurer for the Eastern Indonesia Mujahideen (MIT), and he served as a liaison to radical groups in Makassar, South Sulawesi, authorities allege.

"The arrest of terrorists and supporters of IS [the Islamic State] shows that Indonesia is vulnerable to the threat of terror," Tedjo Edhy said.

According to the National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT), at least 540 Indonesians have joined IS ranks in the Middle East. Government officials have warned, too, that jihadists returning home from combat tours in Iraq and Syria could import terrorism.

Unresolved

Until now, TNI has had no formal role in the fight against terrorism, and some activists see the change as an unwelcome expansion of the military into domestic affairs.

Under the New Order of President Suharto, the military was omnipresent in civilian life and was used to perpetuate a regime that lasted 32 years.

"Terror was given to those who opposed government policies. At the same time, kidnapping, murder, and shooting of activists continued,” Krisbiantoro, vice-chairman of the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (KontraS), told BenarNews.

He cited the military shootings of student activists during riots and demonstrations immediately before and after Suharto’s fall in 1998.

To date, no high-level military official has been prosecuted for those deaths, and the government has suggested that families accept reconciliation instead, according to KontraS and the Indonesian Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM).

"Why would the military be given a greater role if until now the Indonesian government has not managed to resolve cases of human rights violations involving the military?" Krisbiantoro said.

Eric Hiariej, a lecturer at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, said the military's role should be limited so as not to repeat past mistakes.

"We must defend the values of democracy that we have fought hard to earn," he told BenarNews.

Indonesia Inaugurates Special Force to Fight Terrorism

90 people for few hundred islands and more than 250 million population