Although it remains unclear how Indonesia’s Defence Ministry and the Indonesian Military will define and pursue “rational” modernisation efforts, the two institutions should prepare and develop such plans before handing them over to the next government, wrote RSIS Visiting Fellow Adhi Priamarizki and Research Associate Sigit S. Nugroho in an opinion piece. Therefore, a future modernisation plan must not be heavily fixated on the current pandemic situation, they added.

…Dr. Adhi Priamarizki and Sigit S. Nugroho are respectively Visiting Fellow and Research Associate at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University.