Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin

The 41-year-old former ITS Giuseppe Garibaldi, with capacity for short takeoff and vertical landing aircraft and helicopters, arrived Friday morning at a naval base in North Jakarta’s Tanjung Priok seaport, where it was welcomed with a military ceremony

The measure is also intended to prevent hikers from becoming trapped in fire-affected areas, after around 170 hikers were previously stranded in the Bromo Tengger Semeru area

China and Indonesia’s recent joint naval exercise east of Taiwan has prompted speculation that other Southeast Asian countries may follow suit

Yet for years the nation’s navy has lacked the subsurface awareness to monitor, let alone counter, what moves beneath the waves

Prabowo, who has visited France four times as president, met his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Thursday, when the two leaders agreed to boost ties in defence, clean energy, trade and investment

Three months on, he still has no force to lead as none of the five countries that pledged troops have come through with any significant contributions

A messy rollout looks set to disrupt global commodity markets

The Indonesian government’s decision to accept a US proposal to turn an underused airport into a maintenance hub for Lockheed C-130 Hercules military aircraft has stirred up a familiar debate: how far can Jakarta deepen defence ties with Washington while preserving its non-aligned stance?

Indonesian Defence Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin signed the agreement with ​his Japanese counterpart Shinjiro Koizumi in Jakarta

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on April 14 a "major" defense partnership with Indonesia following a meeting with the Southeast Asian nation's defense minister at the Pentagon

Australia will develop joint military training infrastructure in Indonesia in a potentially provocative initiative flowing from the goodwill of a “watershed” defence agreement inked on Friday by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto

The remarks came during a joint news conference between Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Turkish National Defense Minister Yaşar Güler, Indonesian Foreign Minister Sugiono and Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin, following the Türkiye-Indonesia Joint Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense in Ankara

Britania Sari, one of the initiators of the relief efforts, has just returned to her home in Bogor, West Java, after overseeing the dispatch of six trucks carrying clothes, water filters, medicines, sleeping mats, mosquito nets and retort food to the disaster-hit areas

In an advert released on Wednesday, December 31, 2025, the Social Health Authority (SHA) invited applications for overseas healthcare providers to offer specialized medical interventions to Kenyan patients