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Indonesia - Sukhoi Su-30MK2

On 30 December 2011 Indonesia signed a $470 million contract with Russia to buy six Sukhoi Su-30MK2 jet fighters for the Indonesian Air Force, boosting the total to 16. The government was reported to have allocated $470 million to buy the planes even though the price was initially announced at $328.8 million. The Jakarta Post daily reported the deal on 10 January 2011. Deliveries will start after 2013. Indonesian Deputy Minister of Defense Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin said his office had handed over the contract to Rosoboronexport. “We have another contract still in progress,” Sjafrie said.

At that time the Indonesian Air Force had 10 Sukhoi jetfighters - six Sukhoi SU-27SKMs and four Sukhoi SU-30MK2s. The Air Force planned to place one squadron of the jet fighters at Hasanuddin Airbase in Makassar. Russia had recently completed a $300-million contract signed in 2007 on the delivery of three Su-30MK2 and three Su-27SKM fighters to Jakarta in addition to two Su-27SK and two Su-30MK fighters purchased in 2003. The official handover ceremony for the last three Su-30MK fighters, delivered by Russia as part of an agreement from 2007, was held at the Sultan Hasanuddin airbase in the South Sulawesi province of Indonesia on 27 September 2010.

The Indonesian National Air Force (TNI AU) will strive to achieve one of its targets by providing 16 Sukhoi fighter planes for Air Squadron 11 Wing 5 of Sultan Hasanuddin Airbase in 2013, in order to modernize TNI AU defense system primary equipment (alutsista). “According to planning, this procurement of fighter planes shall be completed in 2014. However, exclusively for Air Squadron 11, since its defense system primary equipment is Sukhoi fighter planes, we encourage the accelerated completion of Sukhoi procurement processes in 2013. Conclusively, for our preparation, in 2014 the squadron will be fully equipped with 16 units of Sukhoi fighter planes, all of them being ready to fly,” Vice Minister of Defense Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin said 18 April 2013 while observing Air Squadron 11 Wing 5 of Sultan Hasanuddin Airbase, Makassar, South Sulawesi.

The Vice Minister of Defense explained that with the arrival of 2 units of Sukhoi MU Su-30MK2 fighter planes in February 2013, up to now TNI AU already had 12 units of Sukhoi Su-27 SKM and Su-30 MK2 jet fighter planes manufactured by Russian aircraft industry, Konsomolsk-Na Amure Aircraft Production Association (KNAPO). TNI AU was still awaiting the remaining 4 other fighter planes of the last 6 ones which Indonesia has ordered from Russian manufacturers. The remaining 4 other fighter planes were expected to arrive in June 2013, so that Air Squadron 11 would be fully equipped with 16 units of fighter planes.