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View all search resultsDefense, maritime ministries sign LoI with Babcock on maritime partnership program
The Defense Ministry signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with British shipbuilder Babcock International on the Maritime Partnership Program together with the Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry.
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Strategic partnership: The Defense Ministry's Defense Facility Agency head Air Marshal Yusuf Jauhari (third left) shakes hands on Thursday with Babcock International managing director of business growth and AUKUS, Mark Goldsack (second left), after the signing of a Letter of Intent (LoI) on the Maritime Partnership Program while aboard the HMS Richmond at Tanjung Priok Port in North Jakarta. The LoI linking maritime defense with food security was also signed by the Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry secretary general Comr. Gen. Rudy Heriyanto Adi Nugroho and was witnessed by British Minister of State for Defense Vernon Coaker (left), HMS Richmond commanding officer Cmdr. Richard Kemp (third right), Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin (second right) and British Ambassador to Jakarta Dominic Jermey. (Courtesy of British Embassy in Jakarta/-)
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ndonesia and the United Kingdom strengthened bilateral relations by signing a Letter of Intent (LoI) on the Maritime Partnership Program to develop the Indonesian maritime sector, linking maritime defense with food security.
The LoI involved the Defense Ministry, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry (KKP) and British shipbuilder Babcock International and was signed onboard the visiting HMS Richmond at Tanjung Priok Port on Thursday.
The Defense Ministry’s Defense Facilities Agency head Air Marshal Yusuf Jauhari and KKP secretary general Comr. Gen. Rudy Heriyanto Adi Nugroho signed the LoI with Babcock managing director for business growth and AUKUS Mark Goldsack.
Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin witnessed the signing together with British Ambassador to Jakarta Dominic Jermey and the visiting Minister of State for Defense Vernon Coaker and HMS Richmond commanding officer Cdre. Richard Kemp.
The LoI rests on the three pillars of maritime defense, maritime security and food security.
“We have a free and active foreign policy to choose where we want to strengthen our defense development, including the United Kingdom,” Sjafrie told The Jakarta Post and Antara news agency after the signing.
“We already have a cooperation to build frigate. We hope the process can be faster, so we had a small discussion to overcome non-technical problems.”
