On April 28, the Italian Parliament backed the Georgia Meloni-led government’s plan to donate a decommissioned aircraft carrier, Giuseppe Garibaldi, to Indonesia. If things go as planned, the Indonesian Navy may welcome its first-ever aircraft carrier as early as October 5 this year, as per the Naval Chief, Admiral Muhammad Ali. With this, Indonesia will become only the second country in Southeast Asia, after Thailand, to operate an aircraft carrier. This purchase is being seen as a part of President Prabowo Subianto’s push to modernise the Indonesian Armed Forces, in an effort to maintain strategic autonomy in the face of…
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