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This is a list of equipment of the Indonesian Army currently in service. The Indonesian Army (Indonesian: Tentara Nasional Indonesia-Angkatan Darat, TNI–AD), the land component of the Indonesian National Armed Forces, has an estimated strength of 300,400 active personnel. [1]
The Indonesian military philosophy about the defense of the archipelago is summarily civilian-military defence, called "Total People's Defense", consisting of a three-stage war: a short initial period in which an invader would defeat a conventional Indonesian military, a long period of territorial guerrilla warfare followed by a final stage of ...
' Indonesian National Military-Land Force ') is the land branch of the Indonesian National Armed Forces. It has an estimated strength of 300,400 active personnel. [ 1 ] The history of the Indonesian Army has its roots in 1945 when the Tentara Keamanan Rakyat (TKR) " People's Security Army " first emerged as a paramilitary and police corps.
Indonesia's military said Monday it has arrested 13 elite troops accused of involvement in a video showing the torture of an indigenous Papua man believed to be a member of a separatist group. The ...
Units from the countries of ASEAN began their first ever joint military drills in Indonesia's South Natuna Sea amid rising geopolitical tensions between major powers and protests against China's ...
Indonesia and the United States on Monday began two weeks of annual military exercises involving more than 4,500 personnel, aimed at boosting operational skills as Washington seeks to shore-up ...
Indonesian military units are commonly referred to by compound words. Infantry battalions are routinely called as Yonif s which is a portmanteau from "batal yon inf anteri" ('infantry battalion'). They are also commonly referred to by their battalion nicknames, for example: 511th Infantry Battalion - "Dibyatama Yudha" .
United States Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin stressed the importance of modernising Indonesia's military in a meeting with its defence chief, as Washington shores up ties in Southeast Asia amid ...