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Two Japanese training warships visit Surabaya
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Dancers welcome the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force task group officers on board JS Kashima TV 3508 (right) while commander of the Indonesian Navy’s Main Naval Base (Lantamal) V, Cdre. Yoos Suryono Hadi (left) looks on at Tanjung Perak Port in Surabaya on June 28, 2021. (Courtesy of the Indonesian Navy/-)
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wo Japanese training warships have paid a port visit to Surabaya as part of its journey around the region as well as to conduct logistics replenishment at Tanjung Perak Port’s North Jamrud Pier.
Commander of the Navy’s Main Naval Base (Lantamal) V, Cdre. Yoos Suryono Hadi, welcomed on Monday both warships, JS Kashima (TV 3508) and JS Setoyuki (TV 3518), which are part of a Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) task group commanded by Rear Adm. Ishimaki Yoshiyasu.
“The diplomacy mission [carried out by the task force] is expected to increase the cooperation between navies of both countries which is already good,” Yoos said when welcoming the task force, as quoted by an Indonesian Navy press release received by The Jakarta Post Tuesday.
Similar comments were expressed by Heru Santoso, chairman of the Warga Persahabatan (Friendship Citizen) Foundation, an organization that groups Indonesians of Japanese descent.
Heru expected the visit would increase friendship between both countries.
“We hope ties in economic, cultural and human resource exchange will keep increasing in the future,” he said in the statement.
During the welcome ceremony, the Japanese side handed over two flower wreaths from JMSDF's training squadron and submarine force to pay respect to the 54 people who perished when KRI Nanggala-402 sunk during a exercise in the Bali Sea.
