Friday, June 10, 2011

Parliament Discuss Grant F-16 from U.S. to Indonesia

JAKARTA - MICOM: House of Representatives are discussing several governmentproposals in the field of major weapons systems development tools, including fightergrant type F-16 from the United States. This is expressed by members of the House of Representatives Commission I of the Democratic Party Nurhayati Ali Assegaf.

"Including the grant of military aircraft types of the F-16 from the USA that requiresubstantial cost," he told Antara here on Friday (10 / 6).

In addition, said Vice Chairman of the Inter-Agency Cooperation (BKSAP) House of Representatives, the discussion of education and joint military exercises as well as the needs in other defense areas.

"In a hearing (RDP) earlier this week with Secretary of Defense (SecDef), we willexplore the Budget Ministry and State Institutions (RAKL) proposed by the government(through the Ministry of Defence), have not taken any decisions," he said.

He later stated Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro as if the government hadproposed defense budget amounted to Rp80 trillion, and rationalized in the discussionin the House of Representatives (Commission I) to only Rp61 trillion.

"In accordance with the mandate of the Act MD3 that the units of the three partnersdiscussed with the commission in parliament. So we will discuss in detail about the needs Kemenhan, in particular priority on the provision of major equipment of weapons systems (defense equipment)," said Nurhayati.

In principle, the House of Representatives Commission I always support increasedbudgets in accordance with the needs of partners. House of RepresentativesCommission I overseeing defense and foreign as well as intelligence

"But, not long agree. We need to study and review by doing the try-out on all data sources as well as the problem, only given a recommendation or an agreement to be followed up, for the sake of the people and nation," said Nurhayati. (Ant/OL-11)


source : http://www.mediaindonesia.com/read/2011/06/10/232875/284/1/DPR-Bahas-Hibah-F-16-dari-AS

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