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Our Director, Alban Sciascia, explained how defence investment will not only strengthen Indonesia’s defence posture, but also contribute to the country’s post-COVID-19 economic recovery effort by providing jobs for the domestic defence industry through Transfer of Technology (ToT) and offset programs.

Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Jan Pieter Ate highlighted that to support defence investment, Indonesia must have a long-term modernisation plan to purchase defence equipment until 2045. In addition, Indonesia must also increase its defence spending to provide more opportunities for the domestic defence industry to receive transfer of technology.

In our latest webinar held on November 9, Tazar Marta Kurniawan explained that there is a need for co-production of defence equipment in order to increase local defence companies’ production capabilities and capacities.

Alman Helvas Ali explained that looking at the case of India and Brazil, offsets from weapons procurement could create tens of thousands of jobs in Indonesia and would benefit both domestic state-owned and private defence industry actors. He also emphasised that defence industry actors should keep in mind that they are business entities and should aim for profit to survive.