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RI SHIP-BUILDING INDUSTRY CAPABLE OF MAKING 50 WARSHIPS PER YEAR : LEGISLATOR
Jakarta, Dec 21 (ANTARA) - If all of its ship-building industry's capacities are mobilized, Indonesia can make 50 warships per year and thus meet its navy's full need for such ships in three years' time, a legislator said.
"Thereby, our navy's need for 151 warships to secure Indonesia's territorial waters can be met in just three year's time at a cost of Rp7.5 trillion a year," a member of the House of Representatives (DPR)'s Commisssion I, Fayakhun Andiradi, said here Monday.
But to enable the domestic ship-building industry to meet the navy's need for warships, "the government must really have the political will to achieve it through the defense and finance ministries and the National Defense Forces (TNI," he said.
He said, the House's Commission I (foreign, defense , information and communication affairs) was very keen to see the domestic industry developed and empowered to a level where it could readily meet the military's needs for armaments such as warships to defend national sovereignty.
"One of the things that can be done immediately is to empower the domestic ship-building industry so that we will not remain too dependent on foreign-made military hardware," he said.
About the price of a warship made in the country, Fayakhun said as was revealed when the defense minister commissioned a warship built by domestic ship-building company PT PAl in Surabaya recently, it was about Rp150 billion per unit.
"If the Navy needs 151 new warships, it means the government should set aside a total of about Rp22.6 trillion to produce them at home," he said.
Fayakhun said PT PAL's ship-building capability had already reached a good enough level to be assigned the job of making warships for the Navy, especially in combination with the other major ship-building company, PT Dok Koja Bahari, and smaller companies in Banyuwangi, Manokwari, Batam, Makassar and Bitung.
"Thereby, our navy's need for 151 warships to secure Indonesia's territorial waters can be met in just three year's time at a cost of Rp7.5 trillion a year," a member of the House of Representatives (DPR)'s Commisssion I, Fayakhun Andiradi, said here Monday.
But to enable the domestic ship-building industry to meet the navy's need for warships, "the government must really have the political will to achieve it through the defense and finance ministries and the National Defense Forces (TNI," he said.
He said, the House's Commission I (foreign, defense , information and communication affairs) was very keen to see the domestic industry developed and empowered to a level where it could readily meet the military's needs for armaments such as warships to defend national sovereignty.
"One of the things that can be done immediately is to empower the domestic ship-building industry so that we will not remain too dependent on foreign-made military hardware," he said.
About the price of a warship made in the country, Fayakhun said as was revealed when the defense minister commissioned a warship built by domestic ship-building company PT PAl in Surabaya recently, it was about Rp150 billion per unit.
"If the Navy needs 151 new warships, it means the government should set aside a total of about Rp22.6 trillion to produce them at home," he said.
Fayakhun said PT PAL's ship-building capability had already reached a good enough level to be assigned the job of making warships for the Navy, especially in combination with the other major ship-building company, PT Dok Koja Bahari, and smaller companies in Banyuwangi, Manokwari, Batam, Makassar and Bitung.
