Meeting with Coordinating Minister Luhut and Pindad Chief for Ammunition Production

Previously, efforts to meet TNI requirements each year, PT Pindad will increase twice the production capacity of small caliber ammunition. Currently, TNI needs 300 million ammunition a year.

PT Pindad's director for technology and supply chain, Ade Badgja, said that he would produce 4 times 90 million ammunition a year. The quantity of production is the maximum capacity of Pindad in 2019 or 2020.

"The annual requirement of Asrena is 300 million per year So all the needs of the TNI that we will prepare in Indonesia will create a central propulsive that will be directed by PT Dahana, which will make 400 tons If the plan is proven, it will be carried out by PT Dahana, and we expect 100 tons more, "said Ade, Tuesday, May 8, 2018.

Paban V Sren Kasad , Kol CHB IGN Wisnu Wardana said that he hoped that TNI can be achieved by the domestic production. "For the purposes of ammunition, we hope that everything will be possible in the country, because we see according to the Yesterday's experience, if for example relying on production from abroad, many things we encounter the problem, We can finish in a fiscal year, "said Vishnu.

" Domestic production can support the needs of TNI, our needs of 318 thousand lions of grain, "he added.

At the same place, PT Dahana chairman Budi Antono the government commissioned to manufacture and produce propela. The production of ammunition will be done in Subang

"The plant will be in Subang, so Dahana has 600 hectares of land, and later commercial materials and propellant materials are manufactured in Subang," said Budi. (Aditya Prakasa)

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