Indonesia to launch indigenous naval ship design centre

Jon Grevatt, Correspondent, Bangkok - IHS Jane's Defence Industry
24 April 2014

Key Points

Indonesia plans to establish an indigenous warship design agency later this year
The centre is expected to launch in 2015 under the MoD Defence Industrial Policy Committee

Indonesia plans to establish an agency later this year dedicated to indigenous warship design and development, informed sources in Jakarta confirmed to IHS Jane's on 24 April.

The Naval Design Centre will be set up by the Ministry of Defence's (MoD's) Defence Industrial Policy Committee (KKIP), which is responsible for the development of the local defence industrial base, in conjunction with Indonesia's state-owned naval shipbuilder PT PAL and the Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS), a government-owned tertiary institution in Surabaya, East Java, that specialises in science, engineering, and technological research.

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