Air Force Chief of Staff Marshal Fadjar Prasetyo is preparing special pilots to fly the 4.5 generation Dassault Rafale fighter jets that Indonesia had bought .
Indonesia's recent spending spree on equipment underlines the pressure on the country to modernise its ageing defence arsenal amid rising US-China rivalry in the Indo-Pacific region, but fiscal challenges and a limited budget will make it hard to complete the task, experts have said. On February 10, Jakarta secured a US$8.1 billion (S$11 billion) deal to purchase 42 French-made Dassault.
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