The Indonesian Navy’s modernization efforts are at risk from budget shortfalls and industrial inexperience, according to experts, Defense News reports.
The Southeast Asian nation, made up of a vast archipelago with more than 6,000 inhabited islands and a population of about 275 million, has territory stretching from the eastern Indian Ocean to Papua New Guinea from east to west, and from Borneo island south of the Philippines to the Timor and Arafura seas north to south.
