Indonesian president orders local military drone manufacturing to start by 2022

People examining a full-scale demonstration model of an unmanned aircraft, a medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) drone, developed by a consortium consisting of several Indonesian organisations. The MALE drone was recently unveiled at a hangar of PT Dirgantara Indonesia in Bandung, West Java. - JP

JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo has expressed a desire to accelerate the local manufacturing of long-range military drones — the first of their kind in the country — to 2022.

The drone, technically known as an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), is to be the first medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) UAV in the country.