Defense Minister Prabowo: If We Want To Be Independent On Our Own Feet, We Need The Best Sons And Daughters

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Minister of Defense (Menhan) Prabowo Subianto signed a number of collaborations with the Chancellor of Airlangga University (Unair) Surabaya Prof Mohammad Nasih at the local campus, Monday, September 6

Cooperation between the Ministry of Defense (Kemenhan) Unair by covering the implementation of education, research, and the development of science and technology that supports national defense.

Defense Minister Prabowo stated the importance of the role of science and technology in national defense. In addition, he said, national defense is not only a matter of one sector, but multi-sectoral.

For this reason, Defense Minister Prabowo cooperates with the best universities in Indonesia to collaborate.

"This campus is the center of the brains of all nations. If we want to be truly independent and stand on our own feet, we need the best brains, we need the best sons and daughters of Airlangga," he said.

Prabowo also expressed hope that this meeting would be the start of good cooperation between Unair and the Ministry of Defense. Unair Chancellor, Prof. Mohammad Nasih, revealed that so far the Ministry of Defense has been one of his campus partners in terms of education, so this collaboration is not a relatively new thing.

"The Ministry of Defense is our partner. Our cooperation has been effective every year. Almost every year there are specialist doctors (from the Ministry of Defense) who study at Unair. We hope that it is not only educational cooperation, but also research and other potential collaborations," he said. also.

On that occasion, Prof. Nasih also mentioned several advantages that Unair has, especially in terms of health research.

One of them is research infrastructure in the form of a Level-3 Biosafety Laboratory (BSL-3) which is the largest laboratory in Southeast Asia.

Prof. Nasih also stated that Unair was ready to contribute with the Ministry of Defense in developing science and technology to support national defense.

"We are ready to contribute according to the capacity we have, with maximum efforts and efforts," he said.