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View all search resultsAside from South Korea being part of the East Asian trifecta of ASEAN's cooperation partners, Indonesia has some unresolved issues related to defense deals that Prabowo would do well to smooth out before he is inaugurated in October.
Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto discussed bilateral collaboration with South Korea in the transfer of defense technology on Wednesday and emphasized Indonesia’s commitment to strengthening cooperation aimed at increasing defense capabilities.
Indonesia and France kick off their first ministerial-level defense and foreign policy consultations on the back of heightened military activity in the Indo-Pacific, complicated by the AUKUS defense agreement.
While it remains to be seen whether the recently signed US-PNG defense cooperation will ruffle not a few feathers in Jakarta over the issue of Papua, we would do well to look at our own housekeeping rather than seek to cook up a far-fetched conspiracy theory.
The DCA negotiations had sparked fierce debate in this country, with many, fueled by nationalist sentiment, believing the defense cooperation scheme would constitute a loss of Indonesian sovereignty by allowing Singaporean military to train on Indonesian soil.
The House of Representatives has ratified a defense cooperation agreement (DCA) with Singapore, one of three agreements the two countries signed earlier this year, with an extradition treaty between the neighbors up for a vote next.
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