Air Force Chief of Staff Marshal Soebandrio said the loan agreement on the purchase of six Sukhoi aircraft from Russia would be signed in September, 2008, and they were expected to arrive in Indonesia in the same month. "According to the result of a meeting among the Defence Ministry, the Finance Ministry, the National Defence Force headquarters and the Air Force headquarters yesterday (Aug
PT PAL Indonesia launched Landing Platform Dock (LPD) worth 19.9 million US dollars ordered by the Defence Ministry for the Indonesian Navy
South Korea's air force plans to buy eight Indonesia Aerospace-built CN-235-220 maritime patrol aircraft, with Seoul offering Jakarta two refurbished diesel submarines in return. Officials from both countries have been discussing the proposal for several months, and the final details could be hammered out during joint committee meetings on defence and logistics and as South Korean defence minister Lee Sang Hee visits Indonesia later in July
The Indonesian government has decided to cancel the purchase of 11 Polish-made Skytruck light transport planes as its state aircraft maker PT Dirgantara Indonesia has been able to produce similar planes, a Defense Ministry official said. "If we are able to produce similar planes, we will not need to import them," the ministry`s director general of defense facilities, Air Commodore Eris Herryanto, said here Friday
Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono has said that the government would have four more radars in the 2010-2014 Strategic Plan program to cover the Indonesian territories. "Previously, we have procured four new radars in the 2005-2009 Strategic Plan program," Minister Juwono said in a hearing with the Parliament (DPR)'s Commission I and Indonesia's Defense Force Chief General Djoko Santoso here on Monday