Welcome to IDA 2008! - 19-22 November 2008
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will be officially inaugurating the INDO DEFENCE and INDO AEROSPACE 2008 exhibition at the Halim Perdanakusuma Air Force Base. Organised by PT Napindo Media Ashatama, the exhibition is supported by the relevant government bodies and trade associations of Indonesia, such as the Department of Defence, Department of Trade, Department of Industry, Indonesian Air Force and Indonesian Exhibition Companies Association.
This is the third INDO DEFENCE exhibition to be held and this year it is expected that there will be some 400 exhibiting companies from 37 different countries and that some 20,000 official and trade visitors will be attending. Major companies from Europe including EADS, Thyssen Krupp Marine Systems, Thales and MBDA are exhibiting. Bearing in mind the $1 billion defence package under negotiation between Indonesia and Russia, it is no surprise that Rosoboronexport are here at the show, along with other Russian companies such as Sukhoi and Kazan Helicopter. There is also major participation from Korea, including companies such as Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI), Rotem, Doosan Infracore, Hyundai, Hanjin and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME).
Other international presence comes from Turkey, Poland, South Africa, India’s Brahmos Aerospace, Singapore and other countries. There is also significant Indonesian industrial participation including major members of the ‘strategic industries’, including PT Dirgantara Indonesia, PT PAL and PT Pindad amongst others.
In reality it is two co-located exhibitions, one with a defence focus and one with an aerospace focus. On top of this there are two important seminars being staged at the exhibition: ‘Harnessing Defence Technology Capabilities’ and ‘The Future of Aerospace - Opportunities and Challenges’ which are expected to attract over 300 decision makers from both the government and commercial sectors from within the region and around
the world.
Indonesia remains in many respects an undiscovered market in regional terms, yet as visitors to the exhibition will doubtless experience there is so much untapped potential in Indonesia. The national economy is still growing, though not as fast as everybody would like, and that growth is expected to continue into 2009. There is much to learn about Indonesia’s growing defence and aerospace markets at INDO DEFENCE and INDO AEROSPACE 2009!
