History between Indonesia and France Cooperation
Good relations between two countries are usually based on mutual respect visits between officials from the two countries, on a bilateral or bilateral basis multilateral.
France is one of the modern countries in the world and is located in the Western Europe along with the Netherlands, Germany and Spain. France official name is La Republique Francaise or the French Republic. French Revolution took place in 1780 marked as a shift from the French system absolute monarchy to a republic whose aim is to uphold sovereignty and human rights
For Indonesia, France is one of the important relations that is in Western European region. Likewise with the French state, according to the French state,Indonesia's position is considered important because Indonesia is one of the influential country in the ASEAN region, and with the existence of reforms making Indonesia one of the most democratic countries in the world, because ,Therefore France sees that France must increase partnership cooperation with Indonesian.
French President François Mitterrand's first visit on the 16th September 1986 which was warmly welcomed by Indonesian President Suharto agreed on cooperation agreements in the trade and industrial sectors of Indonesia France (IFCCI) which has officially opened with the aim of collecting French and Indonesian business groups to develop relations on an ongoing basis professionals between the two countries
Indonesia's defense cooperation with France basically has divided into several sectors of cooperation, one of which is regarding cooperation military engineering in this case related to joint training and development military personnel, Mutual Protection on Classified Information namely regarding intelligence, cyber security, military cooperation in which this sector is being improvedr egarding military cooperation in maintaining security both land, sea and air, and the last is regarding cooperation in the procurement of equipment,logistics and defense industry.Â
Cooperation in the procurement of equipment, logistics and the defense industry have reached an agreement in the form of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in Paris, France 11 July 1996. Note of the agreement or MoU is continuously renewed through a process review every 5 years. Through the memorandum of understanding, cooperation regarding procurement of equipment, logistics and defense industry between Indonesia with France continuing to experience development, especially in 2012 it has agreed to establish the Indonesian France Defense Dialogue (IFDD) as a dialogue forum that examines every collaboration that has been carried out every year to come then become a forum for the two countries to convey their improvement ideas cooperation in the future.
Ministry of Defence Prabowo Subianto hopes for the defence cooperation continuity with France
Indonesian Minister of Defense (Menhan) Prabowo Subianto during a meeting with the Minister of the Armed Forces of the French Republic H.E. Sébastien Lecornu, Saturday (11/6), in Singapore, hopes that there will be new initiatives and steps that can be taken into consideration or action by the two governments for the continuation of mutually beneficial defense cooperation in the near future.
The meeting between the two Ministers of Defense was held on the sidelines following a series of activities at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Shangri-La Dialogue 2022 in Singapore. In this meeting, Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto expressed his gratitude to H.E. Sébastien Lecornu who has played an important and active role in the success of bilateral relations between the two countries.
Furthermore, Minister of Defense Prabowo Subianto emphasized that Indonesia and France had established strong defense cooperation, especially in the field of defense equipment. The two countries have also established defense cooperation through educational exchanges and seminars in the framework of capacity building where both parties can share information and experience as lessons learned.
