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Indonesia to buy two submarines within next 10 years

The Indonesian government is planning to purchase two submarines within the next 10 years as part of a 1.95 billion US dollars defense project for the country's impoverished Navy, a defense official said.


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The Indonesian government is planning to purchase two submarines within the next 10 years as part of a 1.95 billion US dollars defense project for the country's impoverished Navy, a defense official said.

Director General for Defense Strength in the Ministry of Defense, Rear Marshal Lambertus Siloy said that each submarine would cost about 220 million US dollars.

"The first submarine will be purchased in 2005 and the second in 2009," Siloy was quoted Friday by The Jakarta Post newspaper as saying.

Currently, the Navy has only 117 ships, including two submarines and 44 warships.

Siloy revealed that the Navy would also purchase four guided-missile destroyers at a cost of about 145 million US dollars each.The warships would be purchased within the next 10 years.

"Each warship will cost 75 million US dollars," he said, adding that the Navy would also purchase French-made Exocet missiles at a cost of 140 million US dollars.

Siloy, however, did not reveal from where the country would purchase the military equipment.

Indonesia's traditional arms suppliers, notably the United States and its ally Britain, have imposed a military embargo on the sale of new military equipment and spare parts to the country due to its failure to stop a bloody rampage by pro-Jakarta militias in East Timor in 1999.

Indonesia recently took delivery of two Sukhoi-27 and two Sukhoi-30 warplanes, as well as two Mi-35 assault helicopters it bought under a 192.6-million US dollars counter trade deal signed with Russia in April this year.


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