their navy is even pipsqueaker
“their navy is even pipsqueaker”
They don’t need much of a Navy, to make a Strategic contribution to containing or defeating communist aggression - they have the location.
Closing the Straits of Malacca to China during hostilities would be huge. Singapore has the facilities, other allies have the ships and crews. Indonesia could host teams of US Marines along the ridge lines, with anti-ship missiles and drone patrols.
Those special purpose Marine units are already standing up in Hawaii, and training for short notice deployment around the Indo-Pac area. Several new weapon systems are being fast tracked to flood the zone out there with new capabilities to deny the area to the PLAN (China’s Navy).
The Combined Naval exercises can be just symbolic, or an early stage capability building - but if they are part of a deliberate alliance to contain/deter/defeat Chinese communist aggression, then the rest of the team can build them up quick.
The Indonesian Air Force has 37,850 personnel and equipped with 110 combat aircraft.
110
The inventory includes five Su-27 and eleven Su-30 as the main fighters (from Russia) supplemented by 33 F-16 Fighting Falcons (from the US), Hawk 200, KAI T-50 and Embraer EMB314.