JAKARTA: A Russian naval unit including a submarine was docked in Jakarta Tuesday, officials said, for joint training with Indonesia, which is walking a diplomatic tightrope in an increasingly multipolar world.
The vessels included the corvette Gromkiy, the submarine Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and the ocean tug Andrey Stepanov, according to the Russian Embassy in Jakarta.
The ships arrived Sunday at Jakarta’s Tanjung Priok port, welcomed with a ceremony where the nations “emphasized the close and long-standing cooperative relationship in the naval sector,” said an embassy statement posted on X with photos of the vessels.
It also underscored a joint “commitment to continue strengthening interactions to maintain peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region.”
Over the coming days, the vessels will do “joint training in manoeuvres and communications.”
