Indonesia Ventures Cautiously Into a Defense Pact

With its own security increasingly at stake in ‘China’s Lake,” Jakarta aligns with Tokyo

The announcement was thin, to put it mildly. After two days of talks involving both sides defense and foreign ministers, Japan and Indonesia agreed to cooperate in defense procurement. There were no specifics and the ministers spent more words condemning events in Myanmar than on their own relationship.

There was no indication of the type of weapons Japa…