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49229
Thu, 03/05/2009 - 18:06
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PRESIDENT TO INAUGURATE RI`S DEFENSE UNIVERSITY
Jakarta, Mar 5 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will inaugurate Indonesia'a Defense University, the first of its kind in the country, on March 11, 2009.
Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono said here on Thursday the idea to establish the university was first raised by the defense ministry in January 2007 to meet the urgent need to improve the state's strategic defense capability.
"The institute will transform Indonesia's military and defense education with the long-term objective of developing a modern TNI (Indonesian Defense Forces) military culture," the minister said.
Changes of national, regional and global scopes had created new challenges to the country's strategic defense capability, he said.
Citing an example, Sudarsono said Indonesian territorial waters which were being used as maritime routes for 40 percent of the world's trade, needed more than security measures in the traditional sense. They needed a TNI capable of making more modern political, economic, social and cultural approaches, he said.
Therefore, Indonesia was now trying to meet that need by establishing an education institute capable of producing leaders with military and civilian backgrounds who had strategic defense capabilities and competence as well as wide perspectives and the ability to adapt to global conditions, he said.
Meanwhile, Major General Syarifuddin Tippe, the defense ministry's director general of defense strategy, said 47 other countries already had a defense university.
In ASEAN, Singapore had established a defense university in 2005 and Malaysia in 2007.
"In the current era, there is a need for thinkers among military officers, who not only have combat or military operation skills but also have perspectives and master scientific disciplines needed to comprehend the security environment and the rapidly changing world," he said.
The inauguration of Indonesia's Defense University would also be marked by a seminar themed "Indonesia 2025: Geopolitical and Defense Challenges" to be attended also by world-class defense strategy experts.***
Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono said here on Thursday the idea to establish the university was first raised by the defense ministry in January 2007 to meet the urgent need to improve the state's strategic defense capability.
"The institute will transform Indonesia's military and defense education with the long-term objective of developing a modern TNI (Indonesian Defense Forces) military culture," the minister said.
Changes of national, regional and global scopes had created new challenges to the country's strategic defense capability, he said.
Citing an example, Sudarsono said Indonesian territorial waters which were being used as maritime routes for 40 percent of the world's trade, needed more than security measures in the traditional sense. They needed a TNI capable of making more modern political, economic, social and cultural approaches, he said.
Therefore, Indonesia was now trying to meet that need by establishing an education institute capable of producing leaders with military and civilian backgrounds who had strategic defense capabilities and competence as well as wide perspectives and the ability to adapt to global conditions, he said.
Meanwhile, Major General Syarifuddin Tippe, the defense ministry's director general of defense strategy, said 47 other countries already had a defense university.
In ASEAN, Singapore had established a defense university in 2005 and Malaysia in 2007.
"In the current era, there is a need for thinkers among military officers, who not only have combat or military operation skills but also have perspectives and master scientific disciplines needed to comprehend the security environment and the rapidly changing world," he said.
The inauguration of Indonesia's Defense University would also be marked by a seminar themed "Indonesia 2025: Geopolitical and Defense Challenges" to be attended also by world-class defense strategy experts.***
