Preventing The Threat Of War, The National Armed Forces Need To Develop Nuclear, Biological, And Chemical Health Units

Head of the TNI Health Center (Kapuskes) Major General TNI Budiman while giving a speech at the Health Technical Coordination Meeting/Photo: Antara

JAKARTA - Head of the TNI Health Center (Kapuskes) Major General TNI Budiman said the National Armed Forces (TNI) needed to develop nuclear, biological, and chemical (Nubika) and cyber health units to prevent biological threats from entering Indonesia, such as the COVID-19 virus.

"In the future, there will be potential threats and wars which are a marriage between generation 4 and 5 wars with biological threats which later become 'biological asymmetric warfare' and 'biocyber warfare'," said the Head of the TNI Health Center when giving a speech at the Health Technical Coordination Meeting (Rakornikes) in 2022, at TNI Headquarters Cilangkap, East Jakarta, Wednesday, April 13.

The Rakornikes itself raised the theme "Based on the Spirit of Solidity, Loyalty, and Professionalism, TNI Health is ready to Support the Overcoming of the COVID-19 Pandemic Towards Endemic Conditions in the context of Accelerating National Economic Recovery and Achieving Structural Reforms.

In fact, Budiman continued, the discovery of DNA synthesis technology which is believed to be the beginning of the industrial revolution 5.0 in the future will further increase the pattern of biological threats which will indirectly affect the techniques and strategies of biological warfare.

"The TNI needs to prevent and counter these threats by developing a Nubika and cyber health unit equipped with sophisticated equipment," Budiman said as quoted by Antara.

Therefore, he hopes that the TNI, especially the health of the TNI, will always be solid, loyal, and professional in carrying out their duties.

On that occasion, Budiman said the role of TNI health as a national health subsystem and component of national resilience was evident, such as in handling the COVID-19 pandemic.

Therefore, the involvement of the TNI in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia is appropriate.

The collaboration between the five elements of the penta-helix is ​​essentially a civil-military collaboration that has long existed since the era of the war of independence.

"This collaboration has been tested and can be maintained intact at any time, as long as TNI soldiers understand the identity, code of ethics, and main duties of the TNI. One of the manifestations of good civil-military collaboration is the operation of the Wisma Atlet COVID-19 Emergency Hospital," said Budiman.