Aug. 7, Online
State-owned weapons manufacturer PT Pindad complained on Sunday that it faced difficulties in selling its products to the Indonesian Military (TNI), as the latter preferred imported weapons.
“For example, we have offered BT-250 bombs for the past 10 years; however, the TNI has not taken them,” Pindad president director Adik Avianto Soedarsono said as quoted by kompas.com on Sunday.
Adik said the TNI was Pindad’s biggest customer but Pindad had yet to sign any purchasing deal with the TNI this year.
Your comments:
Once quality control is implemented (perhaps outsourcing proper management or quality control to third parties) I think the TNI and National Police will be more than happy to buy from Pindad, instead at this moment in time for the safety of the personnel they will buy overseas.
Deddy
Jakarta
There are a lot of reasons for buying local Indonesian products. It seems utterly irrational for TNI/National Police not to buy Pindad’s products. Why? Well, surely one needs to understand the story behind it right?
Maybe the “kickback” from Pindad was not as fantastic as foreign’ ones, if Pindad offered it at all. This kind of practice is not uncommon in government agencies. Speechless.
Petruk
Yogyakarta
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