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View all search resultsThe "Super Garuda Shield" exercise will be held in Sumatra and Kalimantan from Aug. 1 to 14, involving such countries as Australia, Japan, South Korea and Britain. Ground drills and beach-landing exercises are being scheduled.
The NasDem Party has announced three potential presidential nominees for the 2024 presidential election, none of whom are party flag bearers, as it prepares to kick off coalition talks with other party leaders.
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo swore in on Wednesday his sole nominee for the post of new Indonesian Military (TNI) commander, Gen. Andika Perkasa, along with Gen. Dudung Abdurrachman, previously the Army’s Strategic Reserves commander (Pangkostrad), as the Army’s new chief of staff.
Incoming Indonesian Military (TNI) Commander Gen. Andika Perkasa may have only 13 months to serve in the TNI’s top position before his mandatory retirement, but experts say he will have a number of security challenges to overcome.
Based on several similarities in his political strategy with Indonesia’s second president Soeharto --in 2016, I wrote about his hidden side as a “little Soeharto”—I can surmise Jokowi has a far-reaching game plan for outgoing Army chief Andika. The President has cooked up for quite some time a deliberate scenario for the future of the general, and more importantly for Jokowi himself after he finishes his second term in 2024.
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