Sustained Military Spending Paves Way To Wide-Spread Progress In Indonesia

Indonesia is quickly growing into a military power in South East Asia as it continues to strengthen its armed forces with the best in technology and weapons. Since 2009, the country’s defense budget has grown steadily from $3.4 billion to $8 billion this year. According to a defenseworld.net market research study, by 2014, Indonesia’s budget will rise to nearly $12 billion assuring Indonesia’s growth over the 10 years in terms of military spending. The growing military power with a steady defense budget, has managed to simultaneously foster relations with the U.S and China to cultivate its own weapons arsenal while actively exporting arms to developing nations such as Brunei, Myanmar, Philippines, East Timor and others. Indonesia’s relations with China have set forth a host of joint ventures focusing on C4ISR projects and local production of missiles. The 23-page article contains 4,110 words, 11 tables and 3 graphs. Subscribe to this research article for US$499. Please email editor (at) defenseworld.net for subscription information and to receive an article brief.