Burying the Hatchet · 6:28am Dec 12th, 2020
After the visits of the Dutch and Danish monarchy, and the Prime Minister of Japan, I hope this will be the start of Indonesia having extremely close relationships with strategic countries. Not military alliances per se, but in areas beneficial to Indonesia.
Netherlands: Shipbuilding, Maritime Trade, Land Reclamation (I'd rather not cut down forests, but reclaim and create more land from the ocean)
Denmark: Shipbuilding
Sweden: Shipbuilding, Stealth Technology, Defense Industry, Aircraft Manufacturing (Saab should definitely be aiming to get a big foothold in Indonesia)
Germany: Defense Industry (Especially for Submarines and Tanks), Renewable Energy
Japan: Shipbuilding, Maritime Trade, Defense Industry, Radar Technology, Electronic Warfare, Nuclear Energy
Russia: Amphibious Vehicles, Missile Technology, Nuclear Energy
South Korea: Defense Industry, Nuclear Energy
India: Defense Industry (Shoddy at best, but intriguing if they improve. Sorry, but when your submarine and aircraft carrier catches fire and someone somehow stole computers from an unfinished carrier, your security and quality of your products comes into question.)
Australia: Everything. We're suppose to be brothers.
America: I really wish we are closer, but it's like DC is bipolar. First you pissed off Mindef Prabowo Subianto, and then you sent various Generals to Indonesia to appease us (Chief of Staff of the US Army just visited us yesterday) and persuade us to take your deal. I mean, we're grateful that the US Congress gave the go ahead to sell F-16Vs, F-15s, and F-18s to us because the last 2 was impossible for us previously, but you gotta sweeten the pot. Not only do we need fighters, but we need longer ranged SAMs, better radar, AWACs, aerial refueling, a submarine fleet with at least 20-30 SSKs and hopefully 50-70 Midget Subs, etc. We need a lot.)
France: Missile Technology, Submarine Technology, Nuclear Energy (France announced they're making a new nuclear-powered "Supercarrier" and are building a nuclear-powered submarine with Brazil so France is a must.)
Italy: Oto Melara, enough said
Turkey: Drone technology, Defense Industry
Israel: Drone Technology, Defense Industry (Batch of IWI Tavors were sent to Indonesia today. Hope this means more and bigger products. Suck my ass you Islamic Radical fucks. I'm all for Palestine, but wtf do we even get out of it? Our country comes first. Focus on that you camel ass sniffers.)
Indonesia still uses such power like Natural Gas and Coal. President Jokowi has been pushing the country to go green. Hope in the future, we're using wind, wave power, hydroelectric, biofuel, nuclear, solar, and geothermal much more (We're a volcanic country, we have around 40% of the world's potential geothermal resources. We should be bigger than America, not second.) I know we got a bunch of oil and coal barons influencing Jakarta, but if these guys are smart, they should be transitioning their companies to Geothermal and Solar. Like I said, Indonesia has 40% of the world's potential Geothermal Energy. As for Solar, we sit in the Equator, we're Humid, and we're really Summer all year long. Solar is the future. Your crusty old ass may not realize it, but I know for damn sure your kids who will inherit the companies and are educated in the US and Europe do see the potential.
I don't even know why we continue to insist on coal and oil. Our oil reserves aren't even big and most major countries don't even rely on coal anymore. I feel like we're that one idiot who thinks there's such thing as "clean coal". I don't even know wtf is clean coal. Someone help me. What in the actual fuck is clean coal? Saying clean coal is like saying peaceful war. Tf is this shit?
You'll notice I mentioned shipbuilding a lot. That's because Indonesian Empires of the past were less known, but were major maritime powers. The dream (especially for the Navy) is for Indonesia to be both a maritime and naval power. I learned that repeating the same thing over and over to people helps them remember so I'll say this again. With a large navy (especially a big submarine fleet), an advanced air force, and enough coastal missile batteries that will make Russia blush, we can put a huge dent on the world's economy. Since we're focusing on China, cutting off all of Indonesia's straits during a war is like having a bull stomp on a man's neck. Their maritime trade is fucking dead and their economy fucked harder than Nate Robinson. That Kra Canal they're building in Thailand don't mean shit when the Thai Navy is a joke and an Indonesian Navy boosted on steroids and looking like DK Metcalf's abs can blockade tf out of it. We're neighbors, that canal is like a block away from us.
You know what would be a beautiful sight? A combined Japanese-Indonesian-American fleet down near the Natuna Islands chasing off Chinese fishermen and Coast Guard. Oh ho, I'm just imagining it. A fleet of Chinese fishermen and Coast Guard coming down to our turf thinking they can take our fish only to be chased off by a fleet in the middle of doing naval exercises. A Gerald R. Ford-class Supercarrier escorted by Arleigh Burkes, Japanese Izumos and Kongos, and Indonesian 30FFMs and Iver Huitfeldts. Indonesia intends to make Natuna Island the new "Pearl Harbor". Lets make it an ultra Pearl Harbor by inviting fleets around the world regularly to stop on by and do naval exercises.
To be honest, if you want the best anti-air: go Russian.
If you want stuff to fool said anti-air 90% of the time: go American.
If you want to alert every sensor, radar, and observation system to your presence except the one system it was designed to work against: go Chinese.
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Russians are one of the best at electronic warfare too. I would prefer getting that tech they used to hack into an enemy drone remotely. If we were to get Russian SAMs, America would stop dealing and start giving all of our neighbors counters.
For SAMs, the safest bet is European. That’s why we’re buying NASAMS 2, Oerlikon Skyguard and Skyshield, and rumors of interests in the SAMP/T, CAMM-ER, and the Aster family.