Indonesia Is First Export Customer for Korea’s T-50 Trainer Jet
Indonesia has provisionally selected the KAI T-50 Golden Eagle
The Korean-built KAI T-50 Golden Eagle has reportedly been selected as Indonesia’s new jet trainer.
The Korean-built KAI T-50 Golden Eagle has reportedly been selected as Indonesia’s new jet trainer.

Indonesia has provisionally selected the KAI T-50 Golden Eagle as a new jet trainer, and will buy 16, according to the Chosunilbo newspaper in Seoul. The paper said that Korea Aerospace Industries “slashed the price of the T-50 to less than $25 million per jet” to head off competition from the Russian Yak-130.

Last February, Korean intelligence agents were caught in a Seoul hotel room, examining laptop computers belonging to a visiting Indonesian government delegation. The two countries downplayed the incident.