Indonesia's defense minister said the country plans to buy submarines, fighter jets and frigates in a shopping spree stretching from Russia to the Netherlands.
The world's largest archipelago plans to buy two new German submarines next year, doubling its fleet, and four Dutch frigates within three years, Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono said in a June 20 interview in Jakarta. The government, which owns four Russian-made Sukhoi fighters, will buy a further six over the next four years.
Indonesia, which emerged from military dictatorship in 1998, is updating its ageing arsenal amid pressure from Asian neighbors and the U.S. to tackle piracy in the Malacca Strait and other coastal waters. Sudarsono, who called the purchases ``the bare essential,'' is buying the weaponry even as he says his defense budget can't cover a soldier's minimum wage.
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