Jakartans@PkDef
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Totally agree with you brother, with more than 18,000 islands, our country needs both presence (Quantity) and mobility (Quality). Having a standing Armed Forces totaling around 500,000 personnel is the ideal numbers since Indonesia ranked 5th in the world and ranked 3rd in Asia in population (Behind China and India).Sorry Sir less than 300000 should not be an option Indonesia should have 400000 of Army at least and 60000 each Navy and Air Force that makes total of 520000 of total Armed Forces and should have around 200000 highly trained and equipped Para Military
and 40000 Marines are part of Navy right ?
Yes, the marines are part of Navy.
Just for your Info, apart from the Armed Forces, we have around 450,000 police personnel include about 47,000 to 50,000 Police Mobile Brigade (Para-Military / heavy armed) police units specialized in fighting insurgency all across Indonesia as Rapid Deployment Forces (They have their own wheeled armored tactical vehicles). We also have 5 Detachment of GEGANA (Police Special Force / SWAT units) and about 500 members of Densus 88 unit (Special Detachment 88 - Anti Terror Unit) which is operated as intelligence-commando style unit specialized for hunting terrorist group such as the Jama'ah Islamiyah and other Al-Qaeda related terror group in Indonesia. This anti terror unit is heavily sponsored and armed-to-the-teeth by US and Australia.
So right now, the combined Armed Forces and Police Force in Indonesia is about 900,000 personnel.