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Coming [ ANALYSIS ]

of Age

WITH THE INDONESIAN DEFENCE
INDUSTRY MAKING RAPID
STRIDES OVER THE LAST FEW
YEARS, THE GOVERNMENT IS always been geared toward self-sufficiency, there has been a more
TAKING STEPS TO PROMOTE recent push for Indonesian defence companies to be more proac-
THE EXPORT OF LOCALLY MADE tive in the world’s stage.
WEAPONS
Each of the companies under DEFEND ID will have their own spe-
cialties. PT LEN Industri will focus on the development of command,
control, communications, computers, combat systems, intelligence,
Yulian Ardiansyah
surveillance and reconnaissance (C5ISR) and network-centric
warfare technologies. PT PINDAD (land systems), PT PAL (mar-
The Indonesian government is currently in the itime) and PTDI (aerospace) will focus on the development and
process of setting up a holding company to Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) in their respective fields
accelerate the development of its defence with additional responsibility for PT PINDAD to develop and provide
capabilities and better market products of local weaponries and ammunitions for all platforms. PT Dahana will focus
defence firms. on developing explosive products for all involved companies.

The company will be inaugurated in the coming Apart from the target of becoming a member of the Top 50 among
months and is set to become the face of defence companies, DEFEND ID has also set out to achieve domes-
Indonesian defence industries in the global tic content levels (TKDN) above 50 percent in all national defence
market in the future. This company, “DEFEND projects. It is hoped that this will have a positive impact by open-
ID,” which has set itself the goal of becoming ing up as many opportunities as possible for Indonesian defence
one of the top 50 defence companies in the companies, both state-owned and private. Even as the government
world, will oversee five strategic state-owned works on last-minute details before the official inauguration of
enterprises (SOE) - PT Pindad, PT PAL, PT DEFEND ID, a number of projects involving Indonesian defence
Dirgantara Indonesia (PTDI), PT Dahana and companies are in different stages of development. The products
PT LEN Industri. The latter has also been being developed are for all three domains – land, sea and air.
appointed to lead DEFEND ID.

The move to set up the company is the cul-
mination of the country’s efforts to develop its
defence capabilities by promoting the local
defence industries. While the first priority has

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