The US threatens to impose sanctions if Indonesia buys Su-35 fighter jets.
Indonesia's intention to immediately bring in a piece of new defense equipment in the form of a Russian-made Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jet continues to be thwarted by the United States.
The US even threatened Indonesia and would impose CAATSA sanctions on Indonesia if it continued to process the Su-35 purchase transaction.
CAATSA (Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act) sanctions can be imposed on countries that buy military equipment from America's enemies, which are generally Russia, Iran, and North Korea. The United States of America. The CAATSA Act was passed by Donald Trump while serving as US president on August 2, 2017.
However, Indonesia through the Ministry of Defense has signed a contract with Russia to purchase 11 units of Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets in 2018. Since its inception, the project to provide 11 Su-35 k multirole fighter jets in Jakarta has attracted the attention of the world community," said a spokesman for the Bureau of Federal for Military-Technical Cooperation Valeria Reshetnikova quoted from TASS, Wednesday (21/7/2021).
According to Reshetnikova, Indonesia is under pressure from many parties with this Su-35 purchase contract. Even though Indonesia is facing pressure, Russia will still fulfill the contract and provide 11 Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets.
"At all possible levels, Jakarta is strongly advised to abandon the project. However, we can confidently confirm that the Russian side intends to fulfill this contract," Reshetnikova continued.
Russia has always viewed Indonesia as one of the main partners in the Asia-Pacific region. Indonesia's intention to buy the Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jet has a big goal to strengthen the country's defense. The Sukhoi Su-35 itself is one of Russia's flagship fighter jets that has the features and advanced specifications.
There is one maneuver advantage that the Sukhoi Su-35 has. The Sukhoi Su-35 has a maneuvering technique that not many other fighter jets have, namely the cobra maneuver. with the action of the cobra when it feels threatened.
When flying flat, the Sukhoi Su-35 can quickly lift its 'head' up to an angle of 110 degrees from its original flight line.
With this position, the Su-35 has the advantage of an angle of attack over the aircraft above it.
United States-made fighter jets have not been able to maneuver this cobra.
The presence of Digital Technology has encouraged the advancement of the tourism industry and MSMEs in the country. This was stated by the Minister of Communication and Information, Johnny G Plate.
"From the tourism side, the JP Hub super application is already available, use this super application to support the tourism industry," said Johnny in Labuan Bajo, NTT, Friday.
The Hub Tourism Network application is a digital platform developed by PT Telkom in collaboration with the Telecommunications and Information Accessibility Agency (Bakti) of the Ministry of Communication and Information. The platform was presented to restore the national economy of the tourism sector affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Five super-priority tourism destinations in Indonesia, one of which Labuan Bajo became the location for realizing the digitization of the tourism industry. JP Hub was presented to accelerate the national economic recovery in the tourism sector. The purpose of this collaboration is to realize the digitization of the tourism industry in the five super-priority tourism destinations.
The platform provides superior services that include a global distribution system to build bridges and strong networks with tourism partners in marketing products and services, simplifying distribution and information access, and travel business analysis to improve the transaction experience for partners. It also provides easy transactions for tourists through the Quick Response Code Indonesian Standard (QRIS) payment system.
Tourists can pay for the MSME products they buy without currency and simply by using the scan method. QRIS is a payment standardization using the QR Code method from Bank Indonesia so that the transaction process with the QR Code becomes easier, faster, and secure.
"Use these platforms as intermediary media for MSME and ultra-micro products to enter the marketplace," said Johnny.
Based on data from the Indonesian e-Commerce Association as of May 2021, as many as 21 percent of the target or 13.7 million MSME players have used e-commerce to market their business results. Throughout 2020, the digital economy sector in Indonesia grew by 11 percent compared to the previous year.
With this high growth, the digital economy has contributed to the national economy amounting to US$44 billion or around Rp. 619 trillion.