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India and Indonesia connected Thursday (November 27, 2025) reiterated the value of maintaining a free, unfastened and peaceful Indo-Pacific, guided by planetary instrumentality and respect for sovereignty, against the backdrop of China's increasing assertiveness successful the region.
In their wide-ranging talks, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his visiting Indonesian counterpart Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin besides broadly agreed to acceptable up a associated defence manufacture practice committee to guarantee bilateral collaboration successful areas of transportation of subject technologies and for supply-chain linkages.
India's acquisition successful submarine improvement and supply-chain management, including Scorpene-class submarine programme, was acknowledged arsenic highly invaluable for Indonesia's aboriginal plans, the Defence |Ministry said.
Noting that the ASEAN Outlook connected the Indo-Pacific and India's Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative stock applicable cardinal principles, Indonesia reiterated that India remains a cardinal spouse successful promoting bid and practice successful the region.
"Both countries committed to enhancing applicable practice successful maritime domain awareness, cyber resilience, and associated operational readiness," the Ministry said.
In the talks held successful New Delhi, the 2 sides besides reaffirmed the "strong instauration of bilateral defence cooperation, including the defence practice statement and the enactment of the associated defence practice committee", the Ministry said.
"Indonesia appreciated India's connection to found a associated defence manufacture practice committee to further fortify collaboration successful areas specified arsenic exertion transfer, associated R&D, certification harmonisation, and supply-chain linkages," it said.
The 2 sides besides highlighted the advancement successful associated exercises crossed land, maritime, and aerial forces.
"Both sides agreed to proceed serviceman exchanges, associated grooming programs, and visits to defence acquisition institutions to beforehand interoperability and cognition sharing," the Ministry said.
India and Indonesia besides reiterated their committedness to maritime security, including coordination successful the Indian Ocean.
Both countries reaffirmed their committedness to a conscionable and lasting bid successful Palestine, and acknowledged opportunities for practice successful humanitarian assistance, station struggle reconstruction, and multilateral bid efforts.
Indonesia reaffirmed its readiness to lend peacekeeping unit to Gaza nether U.N. mandate, the defence ministry said successful a statement.
New Delhi announced gifting of horses and ceremonial carriage to Indonesia from Indian Army's Remount Veterinary Corps.
Both ministers expressed their restitution with the dialogue's outcomes and the request to proceed high-level exchanges, applicable cooperation, and structured absorption crossed aggregate areas of defence and security, thereby contributing to peace, stability, and prosperity successful the Indo-Pacific region, the Ministry said.
