{"id":284142,"date":"2025-11-26T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/284142\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T10:00:10","slug":"new-uk-indonesia-pact-targets-maritime-security-and-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/284142\/","title":{"rendered":"New UK-Indonesia pact targets maritime security and sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United Kingdom (UK) and Indonesia have put pen to paper on a \u2018historic\u2019 \u00a34 billion (approximately $5.2 billion) deal aiming to strengthen maritime resilience and security in both nations.<\/p>\n

\"\"Illustration. Source: Pixabay<\/p>\n

The agreement, officially announced by Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the recent G20 Summit, is said to underscore the UK\u2019s and Indonesia\u2019s \u201cshared commitment to stability and prosperity\u201d in the Indo-Pacific as well as to upholding freedom of navigation and supporting a rules-based international order.<\/p>\n

The partnership is part of the broader strategic partnership that the Prime Minister and Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto committed to in November last year.<\/p>\n

As highlighted by the Prime Minister\u2019s office, the new Maritime Partnership Programme (MPP), to be led by Babcock, is envisioned to help bolster Indonesia\u2019s shipbuilding capacity and expertise whilst supporting around 1,000 jobs in the United Kingdom, largely at Babcock\u2019s Rosyth shipyard, with further roles at the company\u2019s Bristol site and Devonport dockyard.<\/p>\n

To be precise, the MPP will see the two countries jointly create maritime capability for Indonesia\u2019s navy and the building of more than one thousand vessels for its fishing fleets as a means of \u2018boosting\u2019 the South East Asian nation\u2019s food security.<\/p>\n

The boats are to be constructed in Indonesia with British support. As informed, this initiative is backed by the UK\u2019s Blue Planet Fund, which strives to lend a helping hand to countries that want to protect their marine environment and reduce poverty.<\/p>\n

In addition to the abovementioned endeavors, the MPP is reportedly envisioned to drive technology transfer and joint research into \u2018next-generation\u2019 shipbuilding practices, including those done via automation-based and artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solutions.<\/p>\n

Per the British government, Babcock will further cooperate with educational institutions to share skills in precision engineering, digital ship design, and integrated naval systems.<\/p>\n

Most importantly, the UK-Indonesia collaboration will be deployed \u201cin an economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable way\u201d, the British government has stressed.<\/p>\n

In the midst of trials and tribulations that the maritime industry has gone through over the past years, both in terms of security and, the other end of the spectrum, i.e., sustainability, the United Kingdom has sought to balance the scales of both.<\/p>\n

That being said, within the last few months, a particularly sharp focus<\/a> has been placed on the energy transition and decarbonization\u2014two pieces that simultaneously fit the nation\u2019s security puzzle.<\/p>\n

Among the most recent efforts, in mid-September this year, the UK government announced that it would set aside over \u00a31.1 billion (around $1.49 billion) in joint government and industry investments for the maritime industry.<\/p>\n

The investment is aimed at green technology, engineering and construction sectors, as well as alternative energy sources such as wind power, hydrogen, ammonia, methanol and electric propulsion solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United Kingdom (UK) and Indonesia have put pen to paper on a \u2018historic\u2019 \u00a34 billion (approximately $5.2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23207,59,57,58,2183,820,108332,50,72576,5699,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-284142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-collaboration","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-indonesia","tag-maritime","tag-maritime-security","tag-news","tag-shipbuilding","tag-sustainability","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}