Indonesia and India: The 7th Joint Defence Cooperation Committee (JDCC) meeting between Indonesia and India will take place in the nation’s capital on Friday.
Giridhar Aramane, the secretary of defence, and Donny Ermawan Taufanto, MDS, the secretary general of the Indonesian Ministry of Defense, will co-chair the meeting. Views on matters of mutual interest, both local and global, will be exchanged.
The Indonesian Secretary-General will hold talks with Indian Defense Industries in New Delhi and Pune during his two-day visit to India starting on May 2.
The partnership between India and Indonesia, which was recognized in 2018 as a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, has expanded the two countries’ sphere of influence to include new areas of cooperation in the fields of research, technology, and the defense sector.
“This expanding partnership is anchored by the defence relations,” the Ministry of Defence stated in a statement.
Furthermore, the two nations’ defence cooperation has expanded to encompass a variety of activities such as broad service-to-service contacts, military-to-military exchanges, high-level visits, capacity-building and training initiatives, collaboration in UN peacekeeping, ship visits, and bilateral exercises.
As per The Print, the JDCC was established to investigate and identify possible areas of collaboration and subjects of shared interest, as well as to begin, coordinate, monitor, and oversee the approved cooperative activities. This was outlined in the defence cooperation agreement signed in 2001 between India and Indonesia.
For two millennia, India and Indonesia have maintained close cultural and commercial ties.
According to the Ministry of External Affairs, the common culture, colonial past, and post-independence objectives of political sovereignty, economic self-sufficiency, and autonomous foreign policy have a unifying influence on bilateral relations.
Furthermore, there has been a sharp increase in the political, security, defence, commercial, and cultural spheres of bilateral relations since the implementation of India’s “Look East Policy” in 1991.
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These days, this collaboration is defined by closed cooperation in both bilateral and international settings, with regular meetings at the highest levels. An essential ally in the Indo-Pacific area and India’s Act East Policy is Indonesia.
During the visit, he also paid a visit to General Anil Chauhan, the Chief of Defence Staff. He honoured the fallen heroes at the National War Memorial in New Delhi earlier by laying a wreath.
