Indonesia to Buy 6 More Russian Jet Fighters
According to Xinhua report, Indonesia will buy six more Russian-built Sukhoi jet fighters, Air Force chief Marshall Herman Prayitno has said.
The purchase of the Sukhois, of which Indonesia already owns four, was to be made through a 1 billion U.S. dollars loan from Russia that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono would sign during his trip there this week, Herman was quoted Wednesday by major national newspaper The Jakarta Post as saying.
Yudhoyono is scheduled to meet his counterpart Vladimir Putin to finalize the loan.
“The purchase of more Sukhois is aimed at creating a deterrent effect and we do not have any plans to attack other countries. Of course as a sovereign country we want to be strong and respectful,” Herman said.
Indonesia purchased the first four Sukhois, along with two MI- 35 helicopters worth 192 million dollars in 2003, during Megawati Soekarnoputri’s presidency.
The Indonesian Military turned to Russia for arms after the United States, which supplied 80 percent of Indonesia’s weaponry, placed an embargo on the country following the Dili massacre in Timor-Leste in 1991.
The embargo was lifted fully earlier this year.
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fuck indonesia
So the great “demogratic” country USA placed an arms embargo on indonesia! what a laught! wasn’t Kissinger who gave the indonesians thego ahead to invade east timor n he later said i deserve a metal as the war was kept out of the news? what us not british warships the ferried indonesian troops to east Timor?
now u took all the Timorese oil and a third of east timorese where murdered by british n american made weapons and aproval for your benefit you are the great humanitarians n u placed embargos
we are not all stubid you may keep american public in the dark with your stranglehold of the media you have NOT as yet world domination
and THX TO A MR PUTIN YOU MAY NEVER WILL
pls be as greatful to the Russians as you expect them to be when they install Russian missiles in Cuba to protect america from ” roque” nuclear power countries like israel
your country now make NAZI germany respectable! Hitler murdered innocent people including innocent jews and addmitted what he was doing
bush is murdering the inocent mostly muslims BUT he tells the world he is on a mission from God to liberate them!!!!!!! run by “the freeloving”
Christian fundumentalist
america was the land people respected sure NOT now by mamipulating the news the facist neocons and their allies have screwed up a once great country into a shit country hated by almost everybody except the real “axis of evil”