Indonesia has spent $10 million on the research stage of the project since 2016. Download and use 3,000+ fighter jets stock photos for free. Indonesia had sought renegotiations because according to the previous provisions, Jakarta would have had to spend hundreds of trillions of rupiah on the project. Indonesia initially aimed to make the jet fighters operational by 2025. The fifth prototype was expected to be produced at state-owned aircraftmaker PT Dirgantara Indonesia in Bandung. The project agreement was signed in 2015 and initially the first prototype was scheduled to be produced by 2019. South Korea had agreed to renegotiations during President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s visit to the country in 2018 but required them to be completed within a year.
“ was only reduced to 18.8 percent,” Dahnil added.Īn anonymous South Korean official previously disclosed that Indonesia was still due to pay the agreed-upon sum of 500 billion won or Rp 6.2 trillion (US$420.2 million) for the KFX/IFX project. He added that South Korea had yet to agree on Indonesia’s previously stated terms, which entailed reducing the latter’s share of the development cost to 15 percent from 20 percent.
