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News a years ago.. until now, I don't get the point why they built Gen Soedirman Statute....R
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Indonesia introduces new defense strategy
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | January 22 2016 |
The government has announced a new defense strategy focusing on three priorities, namely becoming a global maritime fulcrum (GMF), the national minimum essential forces (MEF) and the state defense program for the next 10 years.
On Thursday, the Defense Ministry elaborated plans included in a newly released white paper to foreign military attachés. The event was attended by 50 military attachés from 41 countries, including Malaysia, Thailand, the US, Timor Leste, Pakistan, India, Australia and a number of European countries.
The Defense Ministry’s director general of strategic defense, Maj. Gen. Yoedhi Swastanto, said that the new document was a revised version after incorporating input from domestic and international sources.
“The new white paper consists of a new defense strategy that the government aims to accomplish, including a list of threats, defense development and the state defense program,” he said, adding that the document was available to the public and aimed to improve trust among Indonesia and other countries.
The previous version of the white paper was welcome with input from a range of parties.
Yoedhi added that the strengthening of defense and maritime diplomacy were also important issues and were included in the latest version of the white paper.
In the new strategy plan, the government has emphasized its commitment to meet MEF in its weaponry systems, but has no intention to prepare for war. The stronger weaponry system is aimed at protecting the country’s integrity and sovereignty.
“[To build our weaponry system], we will prioritize the weapons from national industry in order to support the national economy. The strategic industry should be strong, independent and skillful to compete with other countries,” Yoedhi said.
The government also revealed its target of seeing 100 million of people receive quasi-military training through the state defense program over the next ten years.
“The program aims to raise awareness and reduce the influence of radicalization among citizens. We will disseminate the values of state defense in educational, workplace and neighborhood environments,” Yoedhi said.
He added that the state defense program aimed less to confront other nations than to deal with internal or non-traditional threats such as radicalism and terrorism.
Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu said that currently Indonesia was engaged in conflict with no other countries.
“We are destined to be friends and so be it. Indonesia doesn’t have any conflict with other countries and we don’t consider our neighbors as a threat. We are friends,” Ryamizard said in his speech during the event on Thursday.
Ryamizard cautioned, however, that the country had increasingly to deal with threats such as terrorism, cyber war, natural disasters, drugs and piracy.
He added his belief that these threats were not particular to Indonesia, but shared by all nations.
“Terrorism is a common ground on which we can work together. This is a common threat all over the world and we should address this issue,” the minister said.
Two previous governments published white papers, under then defense ministers Matori Abdul Djalil in 2003 and Juwono Sudarsono in 2008.
Law No. 3/2002 on national defense stipulates that white papers are a statement of comprehensive defense policy published by the Defense Ministry and distributed to the public, nationally and internationally, in order to generate mutual trust and eliminate conflict.
Indonesia introduces new defense strategy | The Jakarta Post
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | January 22 2016 |
The government has announced a new defense strategy focusing on three priorities, namely becoming a global maritime fulcrum (GMF), the national minimum essential forces (MEF) and the state defense program for the next 10 years.
On Thursday, the Defense Ministry elaborated plans included in a newly released white paper to foreign military attachés. The event was attended by 50 military attachés from 41 countries, including Malaysia, Thailand, the US, Timor Leste, Pakistan, India, Australia and a number of European countries.
The Defense Ministry’s director general of strategic defense, Maj. Gen. Yoedhi Swastanto, said that the new document was a revised version after incorporating input from domestic and international sources.
“The new white paper consists of a new defense strategy that the government aims to accomplish, including a list of threats, defense development and the state defense program,” he said, adding that the document was available to the public and aimed to improve trust among Indonesia and other countries.
The previous version of the white paper was welcome with input from a range of parties.
Yoedhi added that the strengthening of defense and maritime diplomacy were also important issues and were included in the latest version of the white paper.
In the new strategy plan, the government has emphasized its commitment to meet MEF in its weaponry systems, but has no intention to prepare for war. The stronger weaponry system is aimed at protecting the country’s integrity and sovereignty.
“[To build our weaponry system], we will prioritize the weapons from national industry in order to support the national economy. The strategic industry should be strong, independent and skillful to compete with other countries,” Yoedhi said.
The government also revealed its target of seeing 100 million of people receive quasi-military training through the state defense program over the next ten years.
“The program aims to raise awareness and reduce the influence of radicalization among citizens. We will disseminate the values of state defense in educational, workplace and neighborhood environments,” Yoedhi said.
He added that the state defense program aimed less to confront other nations than to deal with internal or non-traditional threats such as radicalism and terrorism.
Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu said that currently Indonesia was engaged in conflict with no other countries.
“We are destined to be friends and so be it. Indonesia doesn’t have any conflict with other countries and we don’t consider our neighbors as a threat. We are friends,” Ryamizard said in his speech during the event on Thursday.
Ryamizard cautioned, however, that the country had increasingly to deal with threats such as terrorism, cyber war, natural disasters, drugs and piracy.
He added his belief that these threats were not particular to Indonesia, but shared by all nations.
“Terrorism is a common ground on which we can work together. This is a common threat all over the world and we should address this issue,” the minister said.
Two previous governments published white papers, under then defense ministers Matori Abdul Djalil in 2003 and Juwono Sudarsono in 2008.
Law No. 3/2002 on national defense stipulates that white papers are a statement of comprehensive defense policy published by the Defense Ministry and distributed to the public, nationally and internationally, in order to generate mutual trust and eliminate conflict.
Indonesia introduces new defense strategy | The Jakarta Post
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News a years ago.. until now, I don't get the point why they built Gen Soedirman Statute....
Japanese...?
Well, Gen Sudirman is part of PETA troops before I believe, so part of Japanese Army before 1945.
30.000 PETA troops from Sumatra
40.000 PETA troops from Java.
All have training from Japanese. Those troops are our back bone during the Independence War against both Dutch and British.
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The General Sudirman statue which displayed in front the office of Japan Ministry of defence is a gift from our Mindef as a symbol of increasingly closer bilateral relations between the Two Nations. The symbol is also reflected in the statue when he was still a Commander of PETA, which is one agenda of Japanese propaganda in support the struggle for Indonesian independence.News a years ago.. until now, I don't get the point why they built Gen Soedirman Statute....
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Yah, somehow we have to thank the Japanese who had been willing to train our people. Because since the establishment of PETA, finnaly we have more trained and well organized of soldiers who eventually became the backbone in the war of independence.
And of course, the veterans of PETA is became the forerunner in established of our National Armed Force (TNI) as it is today..
Oh iya kah? Berarti emang dah pernah dibahas dimari ya, soalnya sy blum pernah liat tuh, atau mungkin sy yang kelewat kaliKayaknya udah pernah dibahas disini deh... patungnya kan oleh2 Pak Poer.... waktu maen kesana...
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sama gan.. kelewat berarti ane..Oh iya kah? Berarti emang dah pernah dibahas dimari ya, soalnya sy blum pernah liat tuh, atau mungkin sy yang kelewat kali
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Hehe, tapi gak Ppa kok itung-itung buat nge-refresh ingatan.sama gan.. kelewat berarti ane..
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Dapet bocoran, si hawk bakal dicat kamo abu-abu semua
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Bingo! Ternyata sudah diposting mas Pr1vateer, berarti emang sy yg lupa. Oke thanks
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They need us to fight Allied Force, so in essence it is God plan.......
Without united Military force I bet it will be impossible to fight both Dutch and British.
As said in our constitution preamble that our Independence is actually a great gift/award from ALLAH SWT....
Regardless of that, having this statue in front of their MoD office is still shocking. As if Japanese want to tell to the world that Indonesia will back Japanese in case of military threat
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Army signs Rp2.1 trillion goods and service procurement contracts
Jumat, 22 Januari 2016 22:51 WIB | 660 Views
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The army headquarters signed a contracts for the procurement of goods and services worth Rp2.1 trillion.
"This is the first time we launched contracts for the procurement of goods and services," Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mulyono said after the signing ceremony here on Friday.
The signing of the contracts is in line with the instruction of the president that the year 2016 is year of acceleration of work.
With the signing of the contracts early this year implementation of working program of the army could be implemented immediately, the general said.
"We select the works as we could not carry out all at once. There is priorities which we include in the contract," he said.
There are 664 contracts to be signed worth Rp8 trillion but now only 147 of the contract signed valued at Rp2.1 trillion, he said.
Mulyono did not give details of the goods and services included in the contracts, but he said there were 16 providers of the goods and services.(*)
Army signs Rp2.1 trillion goods and service procurement contracts - ANTARA News
Indonesia, Turkey to improve cooperation to combat terrorism
Sabtu, 23 Januari 2016 10:34 WIB | 414 Views
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Retno LP Marsudi, has met the Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, and both sides agreed to enhance cooperation in tackling and combating terrorism.
Both the foreign ministers held a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Ministerial Conference of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Jidda, Saudi Arabia, on Thursday (Jan 21), according to a press release issued by the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and received by ANTARA here on Friday.
The ministers also agreed to continue to encourage more intensive communication between the intelligence and law enforcement agencies of both countries to increase intelligence cooperation and information exchange.
As regards the situation in the Middle East, Indonesian and Turkish Foreign Ministers stressed the importance of peaceful relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran in order to induce a sense of stability and regional security.
Marsudi and Cavusoglu assessed that a better relationship between Saudi Arabia and Iran is important to resolve conflicts and prevent the dangers of terrorism and extremism in the Middle East region.
In this context, the Turkish Foreign Minister welcomed the initiative undertaken by the Indonesian government to actively contribute towards fostering peace and stability in the Middle East region.
According to Cavusoglu, Indonesias efforts to build mutual trust among the Middle East countries will lend a positive energy to the situation in the region.
The two ministers also discussed the situation in the Middle East with the Secretary General of the OIC, Iyad Ameen Madani.
At the meeting, Marsudi expected the OIC member countries to increase their contribution in establishing peace and stability in the Middle East which is an area with a majority Muslim population.
She also expected the OIC to encourage cooperation between Islamic countries, especially in promoting Islam as an ideology which blesses the whole world and its true meaning.(*)
Indonesia, Turkey to improve cooperation to combat terrorism - ANTARA News
Indonesia’s Papua Reporting Paranoia
Despite Widodo’s promise of an “opening,” journalists are still being kept out of Papua.
Indonesia’s Papua Reporting Paranoia | The Diplomat
By Phelim Kine
January 22, 2016
There are new hazards for foreign journalists attempting to report from Indonesia’s restive easternmost provinces of Papua and West Papua (generally referred to as “Papua”): visa denial and blacklisting. Just ask Bangkok-based France 24 TV correspondent Cyril Payen.
On January 8, the Indonesian Embassy in Bangkok informed Payen that it had denied his application for a journalist’s visa for a reporting trip to Indonesia’s Papua province. The denial was not wholly unexpected. On November 8, Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials notified the French Embassy in Jakarta that they considered Payen’s previous reporting, which focused on pro-independence sentiment in the region, “biased and unbalanced.” Rather than engaging with Payen and France 24 to publicly challenge the report’s alleged inaccuracies, the Indonesian government took the punitive and disproportionate step of a threatened visa ban for an unspecified period of time for any France 24 journalists seeking to report from the country.
Payen’s predicament highlights the glaring gap between the rhetoric of Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s announced “opening” of Papua and West Papua (commonly referred to as “Papua”) to foreign media and the far grimmer reality for journalists still blocked from reporting there.
Official reprisals for reporting on Papua that displeases the government are a threat to journalists and their sources alike.
A week after Marie Dhumieres, a Jakarta-based French correspondent, returned from a Papua reporting trip in October, police detained a Papuan activist who had travelled with her along with two of his friends. Police interrogated the trio for 10 hours, demanding details of Dhumieres’ reporting trip. Police subsequently released the men without charges. Dhumieres expressed her dismay in a tweet to Jokowi: “So Mr @jokowi, foreign journalists are free to work anywhere in Papua but the people we interview get arrested after we leave?”
None of this should be happening.
After all, last May, Jokowi announced a long overdue lifting of the 25-year de facto ban on foreign media access to Papua. That policy change was supposed to put an end to placing foreign journalists in legal limbo through the denial of Papua reporting applications outright or a failure to approve them.
But Payen and Dhumieres’ experiences highlight the disconnect documented in a November 2015 Human Rights Watch report between Jokowi’s policy objectives and the fierce opposition of some elements of the Indonesian government and security forces to opening Papua to foreign media.
Since Jokowi’s announcement, a series of senior government officials have publicly contradicted that policy change. They include National Police spokesman and Senior Commander Agus Rianto. On May 12 he asserted that the government would continue to restrict foreign correspondents’ Papua access through an entry permit system. Rianto justified the need to maintain foreign media access restrictions to Papua to prevent foreign media from talking to “people who opposed the government” as well as to block the access of “terrorists” who might pretend to be journalists as a means to travel to Papua.
On May 26, Minister of Defense Ryamizard Ryacudu warned that foreign media access to Papua was conditional on an obligation to produce “good reports.” Ryacudu did not precisely define “good reports,” but he explicitly equated foreign journalists’ negative reporting on Papua with “sedition” and threatened expulsion for any foreign journalist whose reporting displeased the government.
These statements reflect a deeply rooted perception among many Indonesian government and security agency officials that foreign media access to Papua is a recipe for instability in a region already troubled by widespread public dissatisfaction with Jakarta and a small but persistent armed independence movement. The challenges to media freedom in Papua are compounded by obstacles faced by Indonesian journalists – particularly ethnic Papuan reporters. Local journalists who report on sensitive political topics and human rights abuses are often subject to harassment, intimidation and violence by officials, members of the public and pro-independence forces. Conversations with Indonesian bureaucrats and government officials about the tenacity of official obstacles to foreign media access to Papua routinely reference East Timor and a persistent suspicion that the presence of foreign media and human rights activists in East Timor helped pave the way to that former Indonesian province’s independence in 2002.
Indeed, the government’s obstacles to Papua access extend beyond journalists. The security forces closely monitor the activities of international groups that the government permits to operate in Papua – those that seek to address human rights concerns get particular scrutiny. International NGOs such as the Dutch development group Cordaid that the government asserts are involved in “political activities” have been forced to cease operations, their representatives banned from travel to the region.
Government restrictions on foreigners have extended to United Nations officials and academics Indonesian authorities perceive as hostile. In 2013 the government rejected the proposed visit of Frank La Rue, then the UN special rapporteur on freedom of expression, because he insisted on including Papua on his itinerary. Foreign academics who do get permission to visit the region have been subjected to surveillance by the security forces. Those perceived to have pro-independence sympathies have been placed on visa blacklists.
Lout Pandjaitan, Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs, the security minister, said on November 11 that he would take action if he were given evidence that government or security officials were obstructing foreign journalists from going to the Papua region. “Come back to me, and if it’s necessary, we will fire them,” he said.
The experience of Cyril Payen, Marie Dhumieres and other foreign journalists suggest that it’s time that Pandjaitan deliver on that promise.
Phelim Kine is the deputy director of Asia division at Human Rights Walk and a former Jakarta-based foreign correspondent.
Jumat, 22 Januari 2016 22:51 WIB | 660 Views
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The army headquarters signed a contracts for the procurement of goods and services worth Rp2.1 trillion.
"This is the first time we launched contracts for the procurement of goods and services," Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mulyono said after the signing ceremony here on Friday.
The signing of the contracts is in line with the instruction of the president that the year 2016 is year of acceleration of work.
With the signing of the contracts early this year implementation of working program of the army could be implemented immediately, the general said.
"We select the works as we could not carry out all at once. There is priorities which we include in the contract," he said.
There are 664 contracts to be signed worth Rp8 trillion but now only 147 of the contract signed valued at Rp2.1 trillion, he said.
Mulyono did not give details of the goods and services included in the contracts, but he said there were 16 providers of the goods and services.(*)
Army signs Rp2.1 trillion goods and service procurement contracts - ANTARA News
Indonesia, Turkey to improve cooperation to combat terrorism
Sabtu, 23 Januari 2016 10:34 WIB | 414 Views
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Retno LP Marsudi, has met the Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, and both sides agreed to enhance cooperation in tackling and combating terrorism.
Both the foreign ministers held a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Ministerial Conference of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Jidda, Saudi Arabia, on Thursday (Jan 21), according to a press release issued by the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and received by ANTARA here on Friday.
The ministers also agreed to continue to encourage more intensive communication between the intelligence and law enforcement agencies of both countries to increase intelligence cooperation and information exchange.
As regards the situation in the Middle East, Indonesian and Turkish Foreign Ministers stressed the importance of peaceful relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran in order to induce a sense of stability and regional security.
Marsudi and Cavusoglu assessed that a better relationship between Saudi Arabia and Iran is important to resolve conflicts and prevent the dangers of terrorism and extremism in the Middle East region.
In this context, the Turkish Foreign Minister welcomed the initiative undertaken by the Indonesian government to actively contribute towards fostering peace and stability in the Middle East region.
According to Cavusoglu, Indonesias efforts to build mutual trust among the Middle East countries will lend a positive energy to the situation in the region.
The two ministers also discussed the situation in the Middle East with the Secretary General of the OIC, Iyad Ameen Madani.
At the meeting, Marsudi expected the OIC member countries to increase their contribution in establishing peace and stability in the Middle East which is an area with a majority Muslim population.
She also expected the OIC to encourage cooperation between Islamic countries, especially in promoting Islam as an ideology which blesses the whole world and its true meaning.(*)
Indonesia, Turkey to improve cooperation to combat terrorism - ANTARA News
Indonesia’s Papua Reporting Paranoia
Despite Widodo’s promise of an “opening,” journalists are still being kept out of Papua.
Indonesia’s Papua Reporting Paranoia | The Diplomat
By Phelim Kine
January 22, 2016
There are new hazards for foreign journalists attempting to report from Indonesia’s restive easternmost provinces of Papua and West Papua (generally referred to as “Papua”): visa denial and blacklisting. Just ask Bangkok-based France 24 TV correspondent Cyril Payen.
On January 8, the Indonesian Embassy in Bangkok informed Payen that it had denied his application for a journalist’s visa for a reporting trip to Indonesia’s Papua province. The denial was not wholly unexpected. On November 8, Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials notified the French Embassy in Jakarta that they considered Payen’s previous reporting, which focused on pro-independence sentiment in the region, “biased and unbalanced.” Rather than engaging with Payen and France 24 to publicly challenge the report’s alleged inaccuracies, the Indonesian government took the punitive and disproportionate step of a threatened visa ban for an unspecified period of time for any France 24 journalists seeking to report from the country.
Payen’s predicament highlights the glaring gap between the rhetoric of Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s announced “opening” of Papua and West Papua (commonly referred to as “Papua”) to foreign media and the far grimmer reality for journalists still blocked from reporting there.
Official reprisals for reporting on Papua that displeases the government are a threat to journalists and their sources alike.
A week after Marie Dhumieres, a Jakarta-based French correspondent, returned from a Papua reporting trip in October, police detained a Papuan activist who had travelled with her along with two of his friends. Police interrogated the trio for 10 hours, demanding details of Dhumieres’ reporting trip. Police subsequently released the men without charges. Dhumieres expressed her dismay in a tweet to Jokowi: “So Mr @jokowi, foreign journalists are free to work anywhere in Papua but the people we interview get arrested after we leave?”
None of this should be happening.
After all, last May, Jokowi announced a long overdue lifting of the 25-year de facto ban on foreign media access to Papua. That policy change was supposed to put an end to placing foreign journalists in legal limbo through the denial of Papua reporting applications outright or a failure to approve them.
But Payen and Dhumieres’ experiences highlight the disconnect documented in a November 2015 Human Rights Watch report between Jokowi’s policy objectives and the fierce opposition of some elements of the Indonesian government and security forces to opening Papua to foreign media.
Since Jokowi’s announcement, a series of senior government officials have publicly contradicted that policy change. They include National Police spokesman and Senior Commander Agus Rianto. On May 12 he asserted that the government would continue to restrict foreign correspondents’ Papua access through an entry permit system. Rianto justified the need to maintain foreign media access restrictions to Papua to prevent foreign media from talking to “people who opposed the government” as well as to block the access of “terrorists” who might pretend to be journalists as a means to travel to Papua.
On May 26, Minister of Defense Ryamizard Ryacudu warned that foreign media access to Papua was conditional on an obligation to produce “good reports.” Ryacudu did not precisely define “good reports,” but he explicitly equated foreign journalists’ negative reporting on Papua with “sedition” and threatened expulsion for any foreign journalist whose reporting displeased the government.
These statements reflect a deeply rooted perception among many Indonesian government and security agency officials that foreign media access to Papua is a recipe for instability in a region already troubled by widespread public dissatisfaction with Jakarta and a small but persistent armed independence movement. The challenges to media freedom in Papua are compounded by obstacles faced by Indonesian journalists – particularly ethnic Papuan reporters. Local journalists who report on sensitive political topics and human rights abuses are often subject to harassment, intimidation and violence by officials, members of the public and pro-independence forces. Conversations with Indonesian bureaucrats and government officials about the tenacity of official obstacles to foreign media access to Papua routinely reference East Timor and a persistent suspicion that the presence of foreign media and human rights activists in East Timor helped pave the way to that former Indonesian province’s independence in 2002.
Indeed, the government’s obstacles to Papua access extend beyond journalists. The security forces closely monitor the activities of international groups that the government permits to operate in Papua – those that seek to address human rights concerns get particular scrutiny. International NGOs such as the Dutch development group Cordaid that the government asserts are involved in “political activities” have been forced to cease operations, their representatives banned from travel to the region.
Government restrictions on foreigners have extended to United Nations officials and academics Indonesian authorities perceive as hostile. In 2013 the government rejected the proposed visit of Frank La Rue, then the UN special rapporteur on freedom of expression, because he insisted on including Papua on his itinerary. Foreign academics who do get permission to visit the region have been subjected to surveillance by the security forces. Those perceived to have pro-independence sympathies have been placed on visa blacklists.
Lout Pandjaitan, Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs, the security minister, said on November 11 that he would take action if he were given evidence that government or security officials were obstructing foreign journalists from going to the Papua region. “Come back to me, and if it’s necessary, we will fire them,” he said.
The experience of Cyril Payen, Marie Dhumieres and other foreign journalists suggest that it’s time that Pandjaitan deliver on that promise.
Phelim Kine is the deputy director of Asia division at Human Rights Walk and a former Jakarta-based foreign correspondent.
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