The information was given during the recent visit to Indonesia by Japanese Defense Minister Nakatani Gen.
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto
In fact, the two sides initiated negotiations when Mr. Joko Widodo was still President of Indonesia and current President Prabowo Subianto then held the position of defense minister – but there was almost no progress. Before officially taking office, Mr. Subianto visited China and Japan first, showing a hint of giving foreign policy priority to these two partners. China and Japan are not allies, so it can be seen that Mr. Subianto intentionally builds cooperative relationships with all partners and seeks to balance conflicting partners. This leader advocates promoting cooperative relations with China but at the same time preventing China. He tried to promote relations with Japan and the US to counterbalance China, create a balance with China and thereby prevent China from pushing Indonesia into a situation where it was forced to choose sides. The resumption of negotiations with Japan on defense technology transfer serves the above strategic calculations.
For the Japanese government, transferring defense technology to Indonesia is a way to circumvent current laws banning the export of finished products of Japan’s defense industry. Instead of exporting finished products produced in Japan to Indonesia, we will produce finished products in Indonesia. Both hope to see that this can be used as glue for bilateral links and create more foreign policy cards for each side in handling relations with both cooperative and preventive partners.
Southeast Asian country Indonesia became a BRICS member
