According to Michel Cabirol in the columns of the economic site latribune.fr, the visit of the Minister of Defense of Indonesia, Prabowo Subianto, to Paris earlier this week would have opened up interesting opportunities for the French Defense industry in the country. Indeed, Jakarta, which comes fromincrease the army budget by 16% in 2020, would be interested in several major French facilities to strengthen its armed forces, and be able to dissuade Beijing from any action by overconfidence in the region. If it is, for the moment, only preliminary discussions, the French solution would offer several significant advantages to win the decision.

According to the information obtained by our colleague, the Indonesian Minister would have evoked an interest concerning the acquisition of not less than 48 Rafales planes, but also from 3 to 4 Scorpene submarines and 2 corvettes Gowind 2500. And each of these equipments corresponds indeed, difficulties faced by the Indonesian authorities in modernizing and strengthening their armed forces.

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