Indonesian president Joko Widodo (centre), joined by several of his Cabinet ministers including Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto (left) and Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati (second right), listens to an explanation from the president director of state-owned shipbuilder PT PAL, Budiman Saleh (right) during a visit to the company's shipyard in Surabaya, East Java on Jan. 27. - Antara
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): The government has high hopes that local arms manufacturers can step up their production capacity to facilitate its efforts to modernise Indonesia’s primary weapons defense system amid delayed plans to acquire foreign arms as a result of the Covid-19 outbreak.
Entering the third and final phase of its long-term modernisation programme this year, the Defence Ministry has moved to leverage the role of domestic players in developing the national defence industry, amid the continued shortfall in overseas defence spending.
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