Jakarta – Indonesian Military (TNI) chief Gen. Moeldoko has said the country's military still needs foreign-made weapons.

"For weapons systems that have a high level of competitiveness, we need weapons made by foreign manufacturers," Moeldoko said. Moeldoko also said that he personally preferred to see TNI members using foreign-made weapons.

The TNI chief said he was excited to see modern weapons systems being used by foreign nations during the search and rescue operation for the doomed AirAsia flight QZ8501. "I salivated looking at those systems," he said as quoted by kompas.com.

President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said in December last year that Indonesia should stop relying on imported defense equipment, adding that the country needed to focus on building its own integrated defense equipment systems.

Source: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/01/14/tni-still-needs-imported-weapons.html