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Minister of Defense, Ryamizard Ryacudu visited Headquarters of Marines Command of the Indonesian Navy in Cilandak Jakarta on Thursday (May 3). The visit aimed to have a close  look at the readiness of the main weaponry system and marine personnel to face all kinds of upcoming challenges.  He calls for marine personnel to keep on training all kinds of combating abilities in a bid to be more ready if instructed to maintain the Unitary State of Republic of Indonesia from disruption such as terrorism or modern war.

“To all officers, be good and smart leaders for your subordinate personnel. They should understand how their subordinates’ lives are. Being leaders can solve problems, not to be a problem. Then, your main duties on the base are two trainings: physical training, and tactical anti-terror and many more. Secondly, they should strengthen their mindset because the upcoming war is mindset. This is very important to support the existence of state and nation of Indonesia,” said Ryamizard Ryacudu.

Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu also emphasized the importance of defense infrastructure development with ideal, effective and firm state performance to anticipate all kinds of threats. He also said that it is necessary to instill awareness value of defending the state as basic fundament of total warfare defense. (VOI/AF/RHM)