State-owned enterprises are keen to meet the military’s needs for locally made equipment as instructed recently by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, with some of the defense firms still filling previous orders.
State-owned weapons and armored vehicle manufacturer PT Pindad recently secured contracts from the Defense Ministry to make 625 million rounds of ammunition for delivery later this year, president director Abraham Mose told The Jakarta Post on Wednesday.
The firm was also finalizing a contract for the purchase of its recently released Maung 4×4. Pindad aimed to produce 500 of the light tactical vehicles to be delivered to the ministry by the end of this year, he added.
The plan emerged after Defense Ministry Prabowo Subianto personally tested the tactical vehicle in Sentul, West Java, on July 12. The move was apparently a follow-up after Jokowi told his mi…
