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Indonesia - Eurofighter Typhoon

Reports in 2011 suggested that Britain and Indonesia were negotiating the sale of 24 Eurofighter Typhoons in a $2 billion deal. When British Prime Minister David Cameron visited Jakarta 11 April 2012, the sale of arms was high on the agenda. The British prime minister, who was seeing sluggish economic growth at home, was traveling with an entourage of 30 business delegates during his five-day trip to Asia. As China increased its defense spending and India emerges as the world’s largest importer of arms, Southeast Asia’s largest economy was heading in the same direction. Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous country, has launched an ambitious plan to modernize its under-equipped military and defense industry. Hoping to capitalize on strong economic growth and ballooning defense budgets in the region, Prime Minister David Cameron told local media that Britain produces some of the “best defense equipment in the world.”

The European consortium making the Typhoon heavy jet fighter proposed on 17 April 2015 the possibility of moving a final assembly line from Spain to Indonesia, should Indonesia pick its jet fighter to modernize the Indonesian Air Force fleet. “What we bring to Indonesia is not just reliable protection for the nation, but the opportunity to build and maintain a genuine indigenous capability on the back of a proven partnership and all that goes with it,” said Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH export director Joe Parker.

The series of working visits by the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Indonesia Lieutenant General TNI (Ret.) Prabowo Subianto Djojohadikusumo to a number of countries continued 19 October 19 with a visit to Austria. According to the plan, the Chairperson of the Greater Indonesia Movement Party will meet with the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Austria Klaudia Tanner at the Austrian Ministry of Defense office on 20 October 2020. However, ahead of Prabowo's visit, opposition political parties in Austria were busy criticizing Tanner's move from the election-winning party, the Austrian People's Party (OVP). The criticism raised was related to the main subject of the encounter, namely the discussion of the sale and purchase of 15 Austrian Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets. NEOS Party Defense Spokesman (Das Neue Österreich und Liberales Forum) Douglas Hoyos criticized Tanner's plans to sell 15 Eurofighter Typhoon fighters. According to him, the Austrian military would be in a difficult situation if all the Eurofighter Typhoons were sold.