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Current vice-president Jusuf Kalla is working hard to promote himself for the upcoming presidential elections on July 8 as it seems. He is talking tough to Malaysia about an apparent border incident concerning the Malaysian navy. Nationalist feelings are flaring up once again as Malaysia is threatening Indonesian sovereignty once again, at least in Indonesian eyes.
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The Indonesian government is currently in talks with the United States to buy new Hercules C-130 planes produced by Lockheed Martin in two to three years from now. There is also a possibility that they will purchase fighter jets and u-boats. The government is targeting to expend some 1.2 percent of the gross domestic product for national security. At the moment this is only 0.68 percent.
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Indonesia on Friday sent a warship to support maintaining security in the waters of Somali following the rampant piracy there, Indonesian Military Commander General Djoko Santoso said here. "The participation has been coordinated with the United Nation," Santoso said during the deployment of the ship here in Jakarta.
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The Indonesian military received three new Sukhoi jet fighters from Russia on Monday in an effort to boost defense capacity following a series of deadly accidents caused by outdated military aircraft, the Jakarta Post said. The country now has totally 7 Sukhoi fighters, all of which were purchased from Russia through a credit scheme.
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Russia's Sukhoi aircraft company has delivered two Su-30MK2 multipurpose fighters to Indonesia, local media reported Friday. "The first two of six aircraft purchased by Indonesia have been shipped to the customer," Interfax news agency quoted the company's press service as saying.
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The new Dutch-made warship that arrived in Indonesia last Wednesday has been taken into use earlier today when it left for the waters of Batam from the Belawan area. The first operation of the ship was overseen by admiral Sumardjono.
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In a country often hit by natural disasters, Indonesia's armed forces should shift their focus from the battlefield to emergency and relief efforts, said its defense minister on Wednesday. Juwono Sudarsono said that most of the defense spending in the next decade would be spend on improving transport capability to be able to respond better to emergencies.
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The Indonesian Navy is expected to receive a Sigma-class corvette in the next few weeks. "We expect the corvette to arrive mid August. It is currently on its way from the Netherlands to Indonesia," head of the Indonesian Navy`s Information Service Commodore Sugeng Darmawan said here on Friday.
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The military has deployed around 1,000 troops along the border with East Timor. This followed a security crisis in the new Asian country. MetroTV reported that the deployment was to anticipate the possibility of rebels crossing the border into Indonesia. The former military police chief Maj. Alfredo Reinado, escaped from prison in September after leading dozens of mutinous soldiers into the mountains. Indonesia has closed the checkpoints on the border since last Sunday to prevent an exodus of East Timorese.
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The United States, China and now a resurgent Russia are all competing for regional influence in Southeast Asia, and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is shrewdly playing his diplomatic cards among all three suitors.
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Indonesia`s foreign minister says a military force from Muslim countries should be deployed in Iraq ahead of the U.S. withdrawal to help resolve the conflict in the war-torn country. In an interview with the English-language The Jakarta Post, Hassan Wirajuda said moderate Islamic countries should participate in the 'intervening force', which would not be seen as an extension of the U.S.-led coalition or Iraqi security forces.
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ndonesia is willing to send troops to serve under the UN flag in Iraq if the international community agrees to such a deployment, Defence Minister Yuwono Sudarsono said on Wednesday. Sudarsono told journalists that sending troops was part of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's proposed solution to the conflict in Iraq, which he had conveyed to visiting US President George W Bush on Monday.
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Indonesian troops are set to join a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon this month, the country's ambassador to the United Nations said on Friday. The Indonesian military has said a 125-member advance team will leave on Nov. 5, Rezlan Jenie, head of the Indonesian mission to the United Nations in New York, told reporters. The main body comprising 725 soldiers will follow in late November.
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The Indonesian Air Force plans to fully arm its four Russia-made Sukhoi jetfighters, which arrived here in 2004 unarmed, a report said Saturday. The program is estimated to cost 7 million U.S. dollars, reported the country's leading news website Detikcom, quoting the air force chief. "The fund is intended to buy guided missiles, rockets and bombs, " said Air Marshal Herman Prayitno.
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Indonesia will delay its deployment of peacekeeping troops to Lebanon by one week for logistical reasons, a military spokesman said Tuesday. In a related development, the country signed a euro 17.2 million (US$21.6 million) deal to buy 32 armored vehicles from French company Renault SA for use in Lebanon, said military Maj. Gen. Syafrie Syamsudin.
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Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told the once-powerful military on Thursday to press ahead with internal reforms and respect democracy. "Continue the reform process and respect democracy," Yudhoyono said in a speech at a ceremony marking the military's 61st anniversary. "Democracy must continue to blossom and strengthen along with the establishment of the rule of law and a government which is free from corruption and other ills," he said.
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Chief of Indonesian National Army, General Djoko Santoso said that the Indonesian National Army did not have a 'coup culture'. "The army belongs to the people."
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Indonesia has delayed sending troops to join a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon until next month owing to congestion on the ground, a military spokesman said on Friday. Admiral Mohamad Sunarto, an Indonesian army spokesman, said an advance team of 125 would now depart on October 10 and the main body would leave on October 24. The earlier plan had been for the force to be in place by the end of this month.
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Israel has dropped its objections to Indonesia joining the UN peacekeeping force in south Lebanon, and the two sides are now discussing when Jakarta would send a promised 1,000 troops, a UN official said Friday. After talks that included UN peacekeeping officials, Israel reversed its claim that, because the two nations did not have diplomatic ties, it would not allow troops from Indonesia, the official said.
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Indonesia has not only been making preparation to send troops which will join United Nations peac keeping force in Lebanon but also to deploy a taskforce of the Indonesian Defense Forces (TNI) to continue a peace mission in Congo. The taskforce members that are going to be dispatched to Congo will be recruited from an army engineer detachment, TNI said in a statement made available Saturday.
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The Indonesian government has voiced strong objections to taking part in disarming Hezbollah as part of its mandate in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, The Jakarta Post reported Saturday. Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono said on Friday that the Indonesian government did not want its troops involved in the disarmament of either the militia group or Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, said the report.
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Indonesia is ready to send about 450 soldiers to join the international peacekeeping force that might be set up by the United Nations for peace maintenance in the Middle East, a foreign ministry spokesman said Friday. Indonesia expects the U.N. Security Council, which will have a session on this topic on Saturday in New York, to issue a resolution for establishment of peacekeeping operation in the region in less than three months, said spokesman Desra Percaya.
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Indonesia plans to annually purchase two Sukhoi jet fighters from Russia during the 2006-2009 period, thus putting its total number of jet fighters at 12, Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono said here Wednesday. The minister said the purchase aims at anticipating possible ban by western countries of buying spare parts of military equipment.
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The Indonesian government has contracted the Dutch naval shipbuilders Schelde Marinebouw to build and deliver two new corvettes, the shipbuilder announced Tuesday in Vlissingen in the south-west Netherlands. In 2004 an earlier contract for two corvettes was signed that made provision for an option of two further vessels.
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Australian forces will resume training exercises with Indonesia's Kopassus elite commando force next year, Defense Minister Robert Hill said Sunday. The maneuvers will be the first since Canberra suspended joint training with the commando force known as Kopassus following widespread allegations the troops were involved in human rights abuses in East Timor ahead of the former Indonesian province's 1999 independence vote.
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Indonesia`s Defense Ministry will in the near future revise its budget for purchase and maintenance of military weapons and equipment of the Indonesian Armed Forces following the lifting of the US arms embargo on Indonesia last week. "The Defense Ministry and the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) will soon evaluate the condition of military weapons and equipment, and we will also consider a revision of the budget for their supply and maintenance," Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono told ANTARA during a break in a hearing with the House`s Commission I here Thursday.
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Attending a ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of the Indonesian military (TNI) on October 5, just days after the deadly bombing in Bali, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono instructed the TNI to "take part in effectively curbing, preventing and acting against terrorism".
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The Indonesian Air Force will soon position radar facilities in the eastern part of Indonesia in order to monitor activities and security in the region. Air Force spokesperson Sagom Tamboen said that radar facilities would be positioned in Biak and Merauke, Papua and on Saumlaki island to the north of Maluku.
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It was about a week ago, at a Saturday morning, that I was thinking about whether I should to all the way to Amsterdam to have a look at some boats, because that's in fact wat Sail 2005 had to offer, a long line of boats, moored to the city's cays. Most of them open for public, so ordinary people were also able to take a look aboard. One of those ships was the Indonesian tall-ship KRI Dewaruci, a ship that is used by TNI-AL (The naval forces of the Indonesian Army) for training purposes. I hadn't seen the ship before, but going there just for that is a little too much. A quick look at their website and I wrapped up my stuff to go out anyway.
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Indonesia’s armed forces will withdraw from business activities in two years, sooner than planned, in a bid to improve their image, the military said in a statement on its web site.
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The Indonesian Air Force is stationing four F-16 jetfighters in East Kalimantan to carry out patrol duties over the Ambalat area in the Sulawesi Sea which Malaysia recently claimed as being part of its territory, the country's official news agency said Sunday. "The four jetfighters have left their base in Madiun, East Java,and will arrive in Balikpapan, East kalimantan, in the afternoon,"the Antara News Agency quoted Air Force Chief of Staff Vice Marshal Djoko Suyanto as saying at the presidential office here Sunday.
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Indonesia's navy plans to buy up to 60 modern patrol vessels during the next decade to strengthen maritime security and catch up with its technologically advanced regional counterparts, a report said today. Indonesia has the biggest naval force in Asia but it lags behind its Asian peers in terms of armament and technology, navy chief Admiral Bernard Kent Sondakh was quoted as saying by state Antara news agency.
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Indonesia's military, undergoing phased reforms intended to bring it under civilian control, may soon lose all its major businesses, although legislators said on Thursday the move would not go far enough. Defence Minister Juwono Sudarsono, a respected academic and former ambassador, told legislators on Wednesday the government wanted to take over such enterprises and convert them into state-owned companies, local media reported.
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The Australian public ranks Indonesia as the country’s greatest military threat, a study by a defence think-tank said on Wednesday. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute surveyed opinion polls on defence issues dating back to the 1960s and found Australians now saw less chance of an foreign security threat than at any time in the past 30 years. “However, to the extent that the public identifies a security threat to Australia, there is a greater consensus than ever before that the threat comes from one country: Indonesia,” it said.
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President Megawati Soekarnoputri is tentatively scheduled to visit Aceh province early next month to inaugurate a number of development projects, Aceh Governor Abdullah Puteh said. "According to preliminary information, the President will arrive in Aceh early March but this is subject to confirmation later," Puteh said here on Friday.
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Indonesia’s top military commander has thrown his backing behind Australian plans to join the US in developing a “Son-of-Star-Wars” shield against long-range missile attack, saying the umbrella could help guard Indonesia. Commander-in-chief General Endriartono Sutarto, speaking after a meeting of all senior military commanders, including fiery army chief Ryamizard Ryacudu, said the missile shield could be a plus for Jakarta. “With them developing such a missile system like this, we can make use of it for our own regional stability in facing possible threats from outside of the region,” Gen Sutarto said.
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Australia's decision to look into buying sophisticated warships armed with long-range anti-missile defences was clearly aggressive and targeted at Indonesia, an opposition MP said here yesterday. Mr Djoko Susilo, a member of the Parliamentary Commission on Security, Defence and Foreign Affairs, said Indonesia was a clear target of Canberra's plans.
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The Indonesian navy has signed an initial agreement with Dutch shipbuilding company Royal Schelde for the purchase of two corvettes, a foreign news agency on Thursday.
Navy chief Admiral Bernard Kent Sondakh, on behalf of the defense minister, and Royal Schelde marketing director Robert Post, signed a memorandum of understanding on Wednesday Antara said.
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Australia said on Monday it had renewed military links with Indonesia's elite Kopassus unit to help fight terror in the region, despite previously banning work with the group due to its questionable human rights record. Australian Defence Force head Peter Cosgrove said Australia needed to cooperate with Kopassus because the special forces unit was responsible for counter-terrorism and hostage rescue in neighbouring Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.
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The House of Representatives has moved to block Indonesia from receiving military training assistance funds, complaining it has conducted a lax investigation of an August 2002 attack in Papua that killed two Americans and an Indonesian. The House approved an amendment by voice vote on Wednesday to block the funds as part of a bill it passed to authorize State Department programs for the next two years.
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East Timor's foreign minister said his country planned to send soldiers to study in Indonesia's military academies - the same ones that schooled the army which brutally occupied his nation. Jose Ramos-Horta's comments come as East Timor holds rights trials for abuses committed by Indonesian troops and its proxy militias before and after voters overwhelmingly approved its independence in a UN-sponsored referendum in 1999.
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Poland on Thursday offered visiting Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri extensive cooperation in the military field. "We are proposing a vast cooperation in the military and arms domain," President Aleksander Kwasniewski told a joint conference with Megawati at the outset of her 48-hour visit. "We discussed political, economic, trade, military and tourism cooperation," Megawati said.
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Indonesia plans to buy four Russian multipurpose fighter jets - two Su-27's and two Su-30's - a source in the Russian defense complex told Interfax on Wednesday. Earlier on Wednesday, Indonesian Charge d'Affaires to Moscow Nurrahman Urip said that during Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri's visit to Moscow on April 20-24, a contract to buy Russian fighter jets would likely be signed.
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The Indonesian military has started withdrawing its Kopassus special forces from Papua province where members of the elite unit have been linked to the murder of an independence leader two years ago, military officials said on Thursday.
"The TNI will withdraw all Kopassus troops from Papua because the security situation there is improving," said Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) chief General Endriartono Sutarto.
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Haunted by the ghost of Christmas Eve 2000 when a spate of bombings against churches killed 19 people, Indonesia is taking no chances this year and has packed more than 300,000 police and soldiers into Jakarta for the festival. President Megawati Sukarnoputri yesterday flew to Biak in the predominantly Christian province of Papua, where separatists oppose Jakarta's rule. She was due to attend Christmas celebrations before heading to the Papuan capital of Jayapura.
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East Timor said on Monday it wants its land border with Indonesia to be gradually de-militarised and hopes all frontier disputes with its former ruler can be solved by next year. The tiny territory voted overwhelmingly to split from Jakarta's rule in 1997 but the vote unleashed an orgy of killing by pro-Indonesia militia gangs, some of whom still exist in the border areas.
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Indonesia's President Megawati Sukarnoputri said on Saturday the military needs more money to carry out its duties and protect the nation's vast and porous borders but the government's ability to help out was limited. Speaking at the 57th anniversary of the armed forces and wearing a military-style jacket complete with insignia, Megawati said years of economic crisis had left the government unable to support the police and military, forcing them to make their own money.
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Armed with an M-16 machine gun, Sergeant Juwono was—literally—cornering the market. The Indonesian soldier stood along a main road in war-torn Aceh province selling bumper stickers commemorating the country’s upcoming Aug. 17 Independence Day. He stopped every car driving north and gave a simple but effective sales pitch: buy a sticker or else.
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The military (TNI) still holds the real political power in Indonesia, four years after the end of President Suharto's dictatorship, according to a former defence minister. And soldiers will continue to run Indonesia for at least the next decade, predicts Yuwono Sudarsono, who was the country's first civilian defence minister. "It's the only institution that's holding the country together," Mr Sudarsono said. "Despite its shortcomings, it's the most organised, the most disciplined."
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A military leader who has taken a tough public stance against separatist revolts in Aceh and Papua has been named as Indonesia's new Army chief. Lieutenant-General Ryamizard Ryacudu, who heads the Army's strategic reserve Kostrad, replaces General Endriartono Sutarto who has been promoted to head the entire armed forces. Ryacudu will be promoted to full general when he takes up the post on Thursday.
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Indonesia is committed to fighting terror and turning its army into a professional force, but will not allow U.S. soldiers on its soil, Defence Minister Matori Abdul Djalil said on Friday. The world's most populous Muslim nation has been criticised by neighbouring Malaysia and Singapore for not following their lead in arresting dozens of suspects accused of plotting attacks, some of whom are thought to have links to Islamic militants in Indonesia.
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Indonesia has not invited U.S. troops onto its territory to help fight terrorism. But top U.S. and Indonesian officials have voiced eagerness to re-establish military-to-military relations. Indonesian visiting Defense Minister Matori Abdul Djalil said Monday there is no need for American troops to enter Indonesia to root out terrorists.
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Senior United States officials have dismissed over the weekend recent media reports saying that it would send troops to Indonesia. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said in an interview with the Australian Financial Review as quoted by Antara on Sunday that there was no any American military involvement in Indonesia.
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Armed with evidence that al-Qaeda members have fled from Afghanistan to Indonesia, Bush administration officials are pressing to get U.S. forces into the giant archipelago. But the administration faces opposition from an Indonesian government fearful of rising anger among its 200 million Muslims, and a U.S. Congress that severed ties to the Indonesian military in 1999.
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Minister of Defense Mahfud MD warned here on Monday the Indonesian Military (TNI) was most likely to seize power if the nation plunged into chaos and its democratization process ran foul. In a chaotic situation, the military was in a position to take over the government as it was in possession of weapons, he told participants of a national dialogue organized by the Communication Forum of Islamic Organizations.
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The Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA) admitted that the challenges ahead would be "incredibly huge" in meeting its 2001 target. IBRA deputy chairman Slamet Sumantri said that the agency would find it difficult to obtain a good price for its banking assets because of competition from other similar agencies in neighboring countries.
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Reform is a process of dismantling and putting things back together. As such, the more unbending and unyielding an institution, the greater the pain it will feel when undergoing a process of reform. The Indonesian Military (TNI), like any other military organization in other parts of the world, is an organization that is intrinsically conservative. Consequently, the price of reforming it has become relatively more taxing compared with the reform of other institutions.
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