Japan is moving with unusual speed to deepen defense-industrial partnerships across the Indo-Pacific following the landmark easing of its military export restrictions, with Indonesia emerging as one of the clearest beneficiaries of Tokyo¡¯s new approach.
In the eight weeks since Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi¡¯s government revised Japan¡¯s long-standing defense equipment transfer rules, officials have moved quickly to transform retiring military platforms into instruments of regional capacity-building and to strengthen the security partnerships that accompany them.
The latest example came on Friday, when Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi visited Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto at his private Jakarta residence.
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