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| Purnomo Yusgiantoro (right) with Dragan Sutanovac (left) in Jakarta, Tuesday (Sept. 13).ANTARA/Yudhi Mahatma |
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia and Serbia on Tuesday agreed to enhance defense
cooperation to cover strategic policies, logistics support, defense
industry, education and training.
Indonesian Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro signed the
cooperation agreement with his Serbian counterpart, Dragan Sutanovac,
here.
Under the cooperation agreement, the two countries agreed to
intensify dialogs on strategic defense, intelligence exchange,
experience exchange and consultations, training and education programs,
participation in conferences, symposiums and seminars, Purnomo said on
the sidelines of the signing ceremony the cooperation.
In addition, the two countries would also intensify cooperation in
the procurement of military armament systems covering technology and
technical assistance as well as cooperation in defense industry, he
said.
One of the factors serving as considerations for the two countries to
enhance defense cooperation was the fact that the technology and
quality of Serbian defense industry had met international standards, he
said.
"In fact, a number of ammunition producers in other countries such
as Belgium, Spain and Malaysia also buy certain components, particularly
raw materials from the Serbian defense industry," he said.
"Looking ahead, I can say efforts to enhance military cooperation
with the Republic of Serbia in the defense industry will have promising
prospects in view of Serbian weaponry and ammunition industries`
capability.
This serves as an alternative for us to explore the
possibility of cooperation in the transfer of technology that will allow
us to improve the trial launch of LAPAN (National Aeronautics and Space
Agency) rocket and the trial of Pindad-made artillery mortar," he said.
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