JAKARTA - National security researcher Ulta Levenia Nababan assessed that the overflight clearance submitted by the United States could provide benefits for Indonesia.
According to him, this cooperation can make it easier for Indonesia to monitor the movement of US aircraft that cross the national airspace.
"With this access, it will be more neat, faster, and the movement of aircraft will be more monitored by our defense system," Levenia said in a broadcast on the official account of the Ministry of Defense when interviewed by the Head of the Defense Information Bureau (Karo Infohan) of the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Defense Rico Ricardo Sirait, Tuesday.
According to Levenia, air traffic permits are common in various countries and generally, the management of permits requires time because it must go through a number of bureaucratic stages.
This condition, he said, sometimes makes a number of countries in certain situations cross the airspace of other countries without optimal licensing mechanisms.
He assessed the possibility that the United States aircraft had previously crossed Indonesian airspace. However, without a clear framework of cooperation, the government would find it more difficult to carry out comprehensive monitoring.
"The Americans may have been passing by as well, we don't know. But with this framework, it will be more legal, more neat," he said.
Through this cooperation, Indonesia has a clearer framework for monitoring US aircraft traffic.
In addition, Indonesia can also more easily identify if there is a mismatch between the type of aircraft that passes and the permit that has been submitted.
"It means we can put 'wild lions into cages'. So, we know where this person will move," he said, using an analogy to illustrate the importance of surveillance.
In addition, Levenia assessed that every military cooperation agreement generally provides benefits for both parties.
He estimated that Indonesia also has the potential to obtain other benefits from this cooperation, including access opportunities to more advanced technology or main weapons system tools (alutsista).
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