India and Indonesia To Conduct Bilateral Naval Exercises

India and Indonesia will upgrade their joint patrol activities to to bilateral exercises.


By Ankit Panda
February 08, 2014


Although defense cooperation between India and Indonesia isn’t quite as profound as some would like it to be, the two showed signs of deepening their naval cooperation earlier this week. Ind-Indo Corpat, a biannual joint coordinated patrol in international waters by both the Indian and Indonesian navies, might graduate to the scale of a joint exercise.

According to The Hindu, Indonesian submarine commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Amrin Rosihan noted that the India-Indonesia joint exercise would involve more vessels and “help develop interoperability and strengthen Navy-to-Navy ties.” Rosihan commands the Indonesian anti-submarine warfare ship KRI Sutanto which was docked at Port Blair in India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands as part of the MILAN-2014 multilateral exercise conducted by the Indian navy.

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