Subject: New defense partnership with Indonesia announced
This is getting good:
https://x.com/disclosetv/statu...

Quoting part of it:

Under the MDCP framework, the USA and Indonesia will explore mutually agreed cutting-edge initiatives, including the co-developing sophisticated asymmetric capabilities pioneering next-generation defense technologies in the maritime, subsurface, and autonomous systems domains, and cooperating on maintenance, repair, and overhaul support to improve operational readiness.

Bolding mine.

The first bolded part is terrific. Hello to bases scattered among 17,000 islands with 54,000km of shoreline. Plenty of spaces to drop shallow-draft autonomous vehicles and submersibles right into the South China Sea.

The second bolded part is music to my ears: Indonesia has extensive ship yards and can take ~900,000 dry weight tons in their docks. That means maintenance and repair depots for fully crewed US Navy vessels.

Hallelujah!