JAKARTA - A total of 91 Indonesian National Army (TNI) aircraft from land, sea and air will fly across the skies of the Jakarta National Monument (Monas) area at the TNI's 78th anniversary on Thursday, October 5 2023.

Assistant Personnel to the TNI Commander Marsda TNI Arif Widianto said that as many as 4,636 TNI soldiers would also enliven the TNI 78th anniversary parade and parade ceremony.

"The activities for the 78th TNI Anniversary are being carried out on a large scale, one of which is the deployment of defense equipment," said Arif after the clean rehearsal for the 2023 TNI 78th Anniversary parade and march at Monas, Central Jakarta, Tuesday, October 3.

In this activity, 140 TNI land defense equipment will also be exhibited at Monas.

Arif said that the defense equipment exhibition was held to show the readiness of the TNI, both land, sea, and air, in facing critical situations to the public.

"Of course, we want to give a message to the public, what the public has given to the TNI, where the anniversary celebrations were hampered 2 years ago because of COVID," he said.

Not only defense equipment, the TNI will also show off missiles imported from abroad. Then, the 78th anniversary of the TNI will also be enlivened by a parachute action with 78 personnel from the air and landing on the Monas grounds. Fighter acrobatics were also carried out around the Monas monument.

The commemoration of the 78th anniversary of the TNI continued with the helly dance accompanied by the song gemu famire and was attended by Wan TNI and women as many as 300 personnel, a display of the TNI Academy Cadet drumband with a total of 250 personnel, and closed with a demonstration of the Colossal Rifle Colone with 678 personnel.

"What is unique here is that various demonstrations are displayed, one of which is a rifle collegium which broke the MURI record, because this rifle collegium was carried out from three dimensions with a total of 678 TNI soldiers," explained Arif.

The theme for this year's commemoration of the TNI's 78th anniversary is "TNI Patriots of the Republic of Indonesia, Guardians of Democracy for Advanced Indonesia".

This theme contains the meaning that the TNI as the main component of national defense consisting of three dimensions of land, sea and air will always be solid, strong and loyal to the Nation and the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia, and will continue to safeguard democracy in synergy with all components of the Indonesian nation.


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