The Siliwangi Military Command III is confirming that President
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has canceled a planned trip to Bandung, West
Java.
The President likely canceled the trip due to the
hospitalization of First Lady Ani Yudhoyono at Gatot Subroto Army
Hospital in Central Jakarta, Siliwangi spokesman Col. Benny Effendy told
The Jakarta Post in Bandung on Thursday morning.
“One thing is for sure: We didn't get any confirmation that he would go to Bandung,” he said.
State-owned railway operator PT Kereta Api Operation Area 2 spokesman Bambang S. Prayitno also confirmed that the trip was off.
“It has been canceled. The President headed straight to Jakarta,” he told the Post.
Bambang
said the President traveled by train to Jakarta from Cilacap, Central
Java, where he inaugurated state oil and gas PT Pertamina’s Resid Fluid
Catalytic Cracking (RFCC) plant.
Yudhoyono arrived in Jakarta on early Thursday morning, Antara reported.
Monday, January 16, 2012
Security remains on target despite confusion over President’s visit
Siliwangi Military Command III in Bandung, West Java, is still
working on security measures planned for a possible visit by President
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono although the State Palace has not as yet
confirmed the visit.
“We’re still coordinating with the district military command posts and [police]. There has been no confirmation yet on whether or not the President is coming,” Siliwangi Military Command III spokesman Col. Benny Effendi told The Jakarta Post on Wednesday.
Benny had earlier said the presidential visit to the Air Force's Special Commando Academy in Lembang and a local dairy farm had been entered on the agenda, although it had yet to be determined whether Yudhoyono and his family would actually make the visit.
West Java Police chief Insp. Gen. Putut Eko Bayuseno said on Wednesday that the President was not going to Bandung.
“There will be no visit by the President to Bandung. The first lady is sick. Let’s just pray for her recovery so she can return to the President’s side again,” he said at his office in Bandung.
Presidential spokesman Julian Aldrin Pasha also said the President had no plans to visit Bandung this week.
But he declined to comment on whether the President had canceled the planned visit due to the hospitalization of his wife, Ani Yudhoyono, at the Gatot Subroto Army Hospital in Central Jakarta since Tuesday for an undisclosed ailment.
“We’re still coordinating with the district military command posts and [police]. There has been no confirmation yet on whether or not the President is coming,” Siliwangi Military Command III spokesman Col. Benny Effendi told The Jakarta Post on Wednesday.
Benny had earlier said the presidential visit to the Air Force's Special Commando Academy in Lembang and a local dairy farm had been entered on the agenda, although it had yet to be determined whether Yudhoyono and his family would actually make the visit.
West Java Police chief Insp. Gen. Putut Eko Bayuseno said on Wednesday that the President was not going to Bandung.
“There will be no visit by the President to Bandung. The first lady is sick. Let’s just pray for her recovery so she can return to the President’s side again,” he said at his office in Bandung.
Presidential spokesman Julian Aldrin Pasha also said the President had no plans to visit Bandung this week.
But he declined to comment on whether the President had canceled the planned visit due to the hospitalization of his wife, Ani Yudhoyono, at the Gatot Subroto Army Hospital in Central Jakarta since Tuesday for an undisclosed ailment.
New center to produce world class RI peacekeeping force
Indonesia is hoping to generate more internationally qualified
peacekeeping troops through the newly established Indonesian Peace and
Security Center in order to help maintain global peace and security.
There are three reasons why Indonesia established the center: the Constitution’s mandate for Indonesia to maintain world peace, the absence of world peace at the present time and the need to improve the skills of the Indonesian Military and National Police personnel for international peace missions, according to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
“There have been several opportunities to improve world peace that we missed, for example the one in Lebanon in 1996,” he said during the ceremony to mark the beginning of the center’s construction in Hambalang in West Java’s Sentul.
He said Indonesia actively took part in diplomacy to help reduce the tension between Lebanon and Israel at the time, but the absence of Indonesia’s diplomatic relations with Israel had forced the country to use a third party to deal with Israel.
“And when a truce was reached, Indonesia was in quandary because it could not immediately deploy its peacekeeping force there,” said Yudhoyono.
There are three reasons why Indonesia established the center: the Constitution’s mandate for Indonesia to maintain world peace, the absence of world peace at the present time and the need to improve the skills of the Indonesian Military and National Police personnel for international peace missions, according to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
“There have been several opportunities to improve world peace that we missed, for example the one in Lebanon in 1996,” he said during the ceremony to mark the beginning of the center’s construction in Hambalang in West Java’s Sentul.
He said Indonesia actively took part in diplomacy to help reduce the tension between Lebanon and Israel at the time, but the absence of Indonesia’s diplomatic relations with Israel had forced the country to use a third party to deal with Israel.
“And when a truce was reached, Indonesia was in quandary because it could not immediately deploy its peacekeeping force there,” said Yudhoyono.
Indonesia invites neighbors to join new center
Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro has invited other Southeast
Asian countries to jointly develop the newly established Indonesian
Peace and Security Center in Sentul, West Java.
“I’m inviting all ASEAN countries to join us at [the center],” he told reporters on the sidelines of a ceremony to mark the beginning of the center’s construction.
He said several countries had contributed to the center, for example the US, who helped build barracks at the training center, and Australia, who had helped with language facilities.
While refusing to disclose the amount of money the US and Australia had provided for the center, Purnomo said Singapore and South Korea had also made their own contributions, without giving further details.
The center, whose construction is expected to be completed by 2014, will have facilities for a standby force base, counterterrorism training, disaster relief training, an Indonesia Defense University campus, language training and sports competitions for military personnel.
“I’m inviting all ASEAN countries to join us at [the center],” he told reporters on the sidelines of a ceremony to mark the beginning of the center’s construction.
He said several countries had contributed to the center, for example the US, who helped build barracks at the training center, and Australia, who had helped with language facilities.
While refusing to disclose the amount of money the US and Australia had provided for the center, Purnomo said Singapore and South Korea had also made their own contributions, without giving further details.
The center, whose construction is expected to be completed by 2014, will have facilities for a standby force base, counterterrorism training, disaster relief training, an Indonesia Defense University campus, language training and sports competitions for military personnel.
Indonesia will start modernizing its military
Indonesia will start modernizing its military hardware after a
decade of internal reform riding on the back of an improving economy,
Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro told repoters Monday.
“The Indonesian Military has been involved in internal reforms, such as disengagement from political and business activities,” he told a press conference after a leadership meeting at the ministry.
“All this time, the TNI has refrained from procuring major weapons systems.”
Also attending the press conference were Defense Deputy Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin, TNI chief Adm. Agus Suhartono, Army chief of staff Gen. Pramono Edhie Wibowo, Navy chief of staff Adm. Soeparno, Air Force chief of staff Marshal Imam Sufaat, and ministry secretary general Vice Marshal Eris Heryyanto.
Coordinating Minister for Political, Security and Legal Affairs Djoko Suyanto attended the leadership meeting and delivered a speech to the participants.
Purnomo said most of the procurement could take a long time to realize from planning to delivery as there were various agencies involved in the process.
“Each individual service will describe their needs to the TNI headquarters, which will submit the request to the ministry,” he said.
“Once agreed, we have to talk with the National Development Planning Board [Bappenas] and the Finance Ministry to find the appropriate funding.”
He said because most procurement processes require a long time to realize, the funding usually involves a multiyear system.
The ministry’s Defense Facilities Agency chief, Maj. Gen. Ediwan Prabowo, said most of the shopping list would be sealed in the first half of this year.
“We are currently still looking for candidates for each weapons system. So we have not yet decided the model and pricing,” he told the press conference.
The shopping list includes various weapons systems for the three services including various types of helicopters, howitzers, multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), various types of ships and anti-aircraft missiles.
Indonesia ended 2011 with large procurements, including six Sukhoi Su-30MKK from Russia worth US$470 million; three submarines from South Korea worth almost $1.1 billion in cooperation with state shipyard PT PAL; nine NC-295 medium transport from Spain worth $325 billion in cooperation with state-owned aircraft maker PT Dirgantara Indonesia; 16 KAI T-50 Golden Eagle advanced trainers, worth $400 million, from South Korea; eight Embraer EMB-314 Super Tucano counter-insurgency aircraft from Brazil; and Grob G 120TP primary trainer from Germany.
Indonesia’s shopping list in 2012
Army
1. Main battle tank (MBT)
2. Multiple launch rocket system (MLRS)
3. Howitzer 155mm
4. Air defense missile
5. Assault and attack helicopters
6. Anoa armored personnel carrier
Navy
1. Searider rigid-inflatable boat (RIB)
2. Fast patrol boats
3. Guided-missile destroyer
4. Hydro-oceanography vessel
5. Barque tall ship to replace the existing KRI Dewaruci
6. Various auxiliary vessels, including fuel and landing ship tank
7. Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) helicopter
Air Force
1. Anti-aircraft missile
2. EC-725 Cougar helicopter
3. 24 units of F-16, grant from the United States, to be retrofitted
4. 4 units of C-130H heavy transport aircraft, grant from Australia, to be retrofitted
“The Indonesian Military has been involved in internal reforms, such as disengagement from political and business activities,” he told a press conference after a leadership meeting at the ministry.
“All this time, the TNI has refrained from procuring major weapons systems.”
Also attending the press conference were Defense Deputy Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin, TNI chief Adm. Agus Suhartono, Army chief of staff Gen. Pramono Edhie Wibowo, Navy chief of staff Adm. Soeparno, Air Force chief of staff Marshal Imam Sufaat, and ministry secretary general Vice Marshal Eris Heryyanto.
Coordinating Minister for Political, Security and Legal Affairs Djoko Suyanto attended the leadership meeting and delivered a speech to the participants.
Purnomo said most of the procurement could take a long time to realize from planning to delivery as there were various agencies involved in the process.
“Each individual service will describe their needs to the TNI headquarters, which will submit the request to the ministry,” he said.
“Once agreed, we have to talk with the National Development Planning Board [Bappenas] and the Finance Ministry to find the appropriate funding.”
He said because most procurement processes require a long time to realize, the funding usually involves a multiyear system.
The ministry’s Defense Facilities Agency chief, Maj. Gen. Ediwan Prabowo, said most of the shopping list would be sealed in the first half of this year.
“We are currently still looking for candidates for each weapons system. So we have not yet decided the model and pricing,” he told the press conference.
The shopping list includes various weapons systems for the three services including various types of helicopters, howitzers, multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), various types of ships and anti-aircraft missiles.
Indonesia ended 2011 with large procurements, including six Sukhoi Su-30MKK from Russia worth US$470 million; three submarines from South Korea worth almost $1.1 billion in cooperation with state shipyard PT PAL; nine NC-295 medium transport from Spain worth $325 billion in cooperation with state-owned aircraft maker PT Dirgantara Indonesia; 16 KAI T-50 Golden Eagle advanced trainers, worth $400 million, from South Korea; eight Embraer EMB-314 Super Tucano counter-insurgency aircraft from Brazil; and Grob G 120TP primary trainer from Germany.
Indonesia’s shopping list in 2012
Army
1. Main battle tank (MBT)
2. Multiple launch rocket system (MLRS)
3. Howitzer 155mm
4. Air defense missile
5. Assault and attack helicopters
6. Anoa armored personnel carrier
Navy
1. Searider rigid-inflatable boat (RIB)
2. Fast patrol boats
3. Guided-missile destroyer
4. Hydro-oceanography vessel
5. Barque tall ship to replace the existing KRI Dewaruci
6. Various auxiliary vessels, including fuel and landing ship tank
7. Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) helicopter
Air Force
1. Anti-aircraft missile
2. EC-725 Cougar helicopter
3. 24 units of F-16, grant from the United States, to be retrofitted
4. 4 units of C-130H heavy transport aircraft, grant from Australia, to be retrofitted
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