"During president-elect Prabowo Subianto’s tenure as defence minister since November 2019, he showed a preference for such weapon systems, particularly French-made fighter jets and submarines.“
“Adding another national supplier to a sub-surface fleet already composed of German and Korean submarines and, in the future, French submarines [could result in] increasing the costs to crew, operate and maintain.”
- Asia Society Policy Institute Senior Policy Fellow, Dr Natalie Sambhi, on whether Indonesia would take up China's offer of S26T diesel-electric submarines (SSK) and guided-missile destroyers in South China Morning Post.