Indonesia Comes into Strategic Focus

The Indonesian archipelago of 13,700 tropical islands has been described as a “garland of emeralds flung around the equator”. But it is a garland of emeralds strung around the neck of the world’s most important sea lanes, linking the Indian Ocean with the Western Pacific markets.

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Indonesia Comes into Strategic Focus
Pres. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY), having delivered a stable economic and political base, gets down to the business of delivering a stable, and potent, defense capability for Indonesia as he begins his final two years in the Presidency