Aircraft
Indonesia Modernizes Airlifter Fleet
The TNI-AU expects to receive C-130Js and A400Ms to expand and modernize its vital airlift capacity, as well as to upgrade some existing aircraft.
An A400M in notional TNI-AU colors is depicted operating from the kind of rough strip that is common throughout Indonesia's more remote regions. (Photo: Airbus)
An A400M in notional TNI-AU colors is depicted operating from the kind of rough strip that is common throughout Indonesia's more remote regions. (Photo: Airbus)

While defense analysts in Indonesia have naturally focused on what multirole fighter the nation will buy next—with the Boeing F-15EX and Dassault Rafale seen as the current front-runners—an equally important air force investment program already has gotten underway. A major recapitalization of the airlifter fleet has already seen the air force acquire Airbus C295 medium transports—assembled in-country by PT DI—to replace elderly Fokker F27s, and place orders for both the Lockheed Martin C-130J and Airbus A400M for service with the Tentara Nasional Indonesia-Angkatan Udara (TNI-AU, Indonesian air force).


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