The modernisation of Indonesian naval forces in Jokowi era
As an archipelago country, Indonesia has faced a lots of threats from the sea. Because of that, Indonesia has implemented Global Maritime Axis Policy (GMA) as a new strategy to protect its national interest and sovereignty. One of the GMA objective is to modernise Indonesia Naval Force. Using da...
Saved in:
| Main Authors: | , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2020
|
| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15637/1/39004-123830-1-SM.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15637/ http://ejournals.ukm.my/jebat/issue/view/1260 |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| Institution: | Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | As an archipelago country, Indonesia has faced a lots of threats from
the sea. Because of that, Indonesia has implemented Global Maritime
Axis Policy (GMA) as a new strategy to protect its national interest
and sovereignty. One of the GMA objective is to modernise Indonesia
Naval Force. Using data and research findings from 2014- 2018,
this article will debate about the modernization of Indonesia naval
force under Jokowi Administration. This study has three objectives,
namely toexplains the Indonesia naval capabilities, toanalyse the
development of Indonesian naval force and to analyse the evolving of
Indonesian navy doctrine. The findings reveal that first, Indonesia’s
government has taken in an effort to get in the linkages between
the changing contours, its function in the area, which, shifted, is
being backed through its naval modernisation and expansion, and
second, Indonesia has collectively doubled their military spending
with warships, maritime patrol aircraft, radar systems, submarines
and naval defence systems based on their Minimum Essential Forces
(MEF) doctrine so that Tentara Nasional Indonesia-Angkatan Laut
(TNI-AL) capable an enhance the Green Water Navy concept. |
|---|