REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, SUBANG - The Indonesian Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro stated that the government had been supporting the national defense industry to become self-sufficient through several programs initiated since 2010.

According to Yusgiantoro, the main program is establishing the Committee of Defense Industry Policy. The committee is in charge of coordinating and synergizing the domestic potential. The committee has seven national programs, such as manufacturing of fighter aircrafts, submarines, rockets, missiles, radars, propellants, and tanks.

"Through the self-sufficiency of the defense industry, in 2022, we will no longer need to purchase fighter aircrafts, such as Sukhoi, from foreign countries," he stated recently.

The committee has also prepared a road map for the national defense industry and has been coaching the industry. Propellant industry, for example, which will be built in the Energetic Material Center of Indonesian state-owned company PT DAHANA. 

The Energetic Material Center is located in Subang, West Java. It has such facilities as offices, warehouses, laboratories, and manufactories, including a facility for propellant production.

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