USPACOM Siap Bantu TNI Dalam Pengembangan Kemampuan

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Panglima AL Armada Pasifik AS, Laksamana Timothy J Keating memberikan keterangan pers dalam lawatannya ke Indonesia di Jakarta, Kamis (10/4). Foto ANTARA/Jefri Aries/mes/08

Jakarta – DMC, Pemerintah Amerika Serikat melalui US Pasific Command (USPACOM) berkeinginan memberikan bantuan dalam meningkatkan kemampuan Tentara Nasional Indonesia (TNI) khususnya TNI Angkatan Laut. Sasaran bantuan yang akan diberikan oleh USPACOM adalah bantuan pengembangan kemampuan (capacity building) TNI Angkatan Laut. Demikian dikatakan Menhan Juwono Sudarsono usai menerima kunjungan kehormatan Commander Of US Pasific Command (USPACOM) Admiral Timothy J. Keating, Kamis (10/4), di kantor Dephan, Jakarta.

Dijelaskan Menhan, jalur perdagangan minyak bagi kekuatan perekonomian dunia seperti negara Korea Selatan, China dan Jepang, hampir 90% diantaranya melewati perairan Indonesia. Sehingga pemerintah Amerika Serikat berkepentingan untuk meningkatkan kemampuan efektifitas dari TNI AL, AU dan AD.

Selain ittu Menhan Juwono menjelaskan, bahwa kunjungan Admiral Timothy J. Keating kali ini, adalah dalam rangka menindaklajuti hasil kunjungan Menhan AS Robert Gates ke Indonesia pada bulan Februari yang lalu.

Saat menerima tamunya Menhan didampingi Sekjen Dephan Letjen TNI Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin, Dirjen Strahan Dephan Mayjen TNI Syarifuddin Tippe S.IP, M.Si, Dirjen Renhan Dephan Laksda TNI Gunadi M.DA, Dirjen Ranahan Dephan Marsda TNI Eris Herryanto S.IP, MA, Staf Ahli Menhan Bidang Keamanan Mayjen TNI Adang Sondjaja dan Karo Humas Brigjen TNI S. Hariyanto. (BDI/MNK/HDY)

Sumber : DMC

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