Post-Tragedy Purchases
Prabowo Subianto has the ambition to purchase primary weaponry system on a grand scale. He has set his sights on second-hand items.
Raymundus Rikang
May 3, 2021
ON Wednesday, April 28, President Joko Widodo invited a number of ministers to a closed meeting at the State Palace, Jakarta. The meeting was to discuss plans to improve the country’s primary weaponry system (alutsista). The meeting was held one week after the 40-year-old submarine Nanggala-402 sank in the waters of Bali.
National Development Planning Minister Suharso Monoarfa said President Jokowi asked his subordinates to immediate
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