Indonesia strives for joint military exercises with more countries to respond to China

(Jakarta Composite Electric) Indonesia is seeking more and wider military exercises with other countries in the Pacific region of India to respond to China's maritime threat.

Andyka, commander of the Indonesian National Army, revealed in the Asian interview that the US military delegation will visit Jakarta in December to discuss next year's "Garuda Shield" military exercise.

This annual exercise that has been launched since 2007 has only participated in Indonesia and the U.S. military.However, there were 13 countries participating in August this year, including the United States, Japan, India and Australia.These four countries are members of the "Quad Security Dialogue" (Quad); the four -party security dialogue was established to confront China in the Indo -Pacific region.

Andyka said that Indonesia will also strive for more countries to participate in the "Kobe Shield" military exercise next year to train with the army of more countries.

Andyka also said that he is seeking to establish a closer relationship with Brunei and Malaysia, including holding the Three Kingdoms, land and air joint exercises in Brunei next year.If it is implemented, this will be the first joint exercise involving all the military in China, which is controversial in China in China.

The dispute between Indonesia and China revolves around the exclusive economic zone around Indonesia's Naita Islands.The waters are overlapping with Beijing's "nine -stage line" territory.In recent years, Chinese fishing vessels and maritime police vessels have often sailed into the sea of the Naita Islands, exacerbating their tensions with the Indonesian military.

Andyka said, "I don't have any embarrassment, but our ability to patrol the exclusive economic zone around Naita can only last for a few days, because we need to get supply."

"If we can also get supply in Malaysia and Brunei, not only in Indonesia, then we can patrol for a longer time."

In response to the lessons of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Andyka said that he realized that "nothing is impossible."However, he still avoids that China is a potential threat to Asia.

He said that few people expected the Ukrainian war, but it did happen."So we also think that similar things may happen."