Defense Strengthen ASEAN Regional Focus

The defense ministers of ASEAN or the ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting (ADMM) five points agreed on cooperation in various sectors in the region of Southeast Asia.
Broadly speaking these five points, including peacekeeping operations sector, aspects of maritime security, disaster relief and humanitarian assistance, improving the defense industry, and work programs of three annual Secretary of Defense as Southeast Asia.

In addition, the Defense ASEAN also agreed on the development of an ASEAN Security Network Center (Peacekeeping Centre). Peacekeeping Development Center is the largest plan would be built in Sentul, Bogor, West Java. Especially in the field of industrial ASEAN is also committed to build and build, especially maritime defense.

"We understand the different levels of ASEAN defense industry. We have agreed to maximize the potential of ASEAN to develop its defense industry. If we see each year 25 billion defense budget for the purchase of defense equipment in ASEAN. Funds were mostly purchased from countries outside ASEAN, "said Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro RI at the Presidential Office, Jalan Medan Merdeka north, Central Jakarta on Friday (20/05/2011).

Principally Purnomo said, is how in each year to Rp25 billion could be used for the defense industry in ASEAN.

"If it could, the result will be incredible once. But we also realize the 10 ASEAN countries the level of its defense industry is different, so we'll do it later to how they develop, while they have not been developed. Of course there are the ASEAN countries are already able to build its defense industry, was that there should be a collaboration, "he explained.

Purnomo added that besides receiving Kemenhan cooperation with ADMM also included eight other countries namely the United States, Russia, China, Japan, Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand.

Five areas of cooperation which will be undertaken include counter terrorism, in which the focus of Indonesia and the United States, Peacekeeping Operations, as co-hosts New Zealand and the Philippines, Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief ie, with Vietnam and China. Military Singapore and Japan, Malaysia and Australia Maritime Security.