{"id":98443,"date":"2026-06-02T13:05:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T08:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=98443"},"modified":"2026-06-02T13:06:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T08:06:26","slug":"indonesia-and-qatar-eye-defense-cooperation-agreement-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/indonesia-and-qatar-eye-defense-cooperation-agreement-minister-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia and Qatar eye defense cooperation agreement, minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JAKARTA: \u200cIndonesia and Qatar have expressed an intent to sign a defense cooperation agreement as both countries seek to boost defense capacity and cooperation, officials said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some details:<\/p>\n<p>Indonesian Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin met his Qatari counterpart \u200cSheikh Saoud \u200cbin Abdurrahman bin \u200cHassan \u2060bin Ali Al-Thani \u2060in Jakarta on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The ministers signed a memorandum of understanding, Sjafrie said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough we are still in the process of formulating a Defense \u2060Cooperation Agreement (DCA), today we \u200cwill \u200cbe signing an agreement leading up to \u200cthe DCA,\u201d Sjafrie told \u200creporters.<\/p>\n<p>Both ministries also signed other agreements to hold joint military training and education, as well \u200cas agreements related to the defense industry, Sjafrie said \u2060without \u2060giving further details.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRelationship between Indonesia and Qatar is very strategic, especially in defense sector \u2026 We look forward for further cooperation between our two countries,\u201d the Qatari minister said.<\/p>\n<p>The cooperation will involve army and navy personnel from both countries, the Indonesian Defense Ministry said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAKARTA: \u200cIndonesia and Qatar have expressed an intent to sign a defense cooperation agreement as both countries seek to boost defense capacity and cooperation, officials said on Tuesday. Here are some details: Indonesian Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin met his Qatari counterpart \u200cSheikh Saoud \u200cbin Abdurrahman bin \u200cHassan \u2060bin Ali Al-Thani \u2060in Jakarta on Tuesday. The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":98461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98463,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98443\/revisions\/98463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}