Super Garuda Shield 2025

Source: TH

Context: Indonesia, along with the United States and allied nations, has launched the annual military exercise “Super Garuda Shield 2025”, aimed at enhancing regional security amid rising Indo-Pacific tensions.

About Super Garuda Shield 2025:

• What it is?

• A large-scale multinational military exercise conducted annually since 2009. Focused on combat readiness, interoperability, and regional security cooperation.

• A large-scale multinational military exercise conducted annually since 2009.

• Focused on combat readiness, interoperability, and regional security cooperation.

• Launched by:

• Jointly hosted by the Indonesian National Armed Forces and the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.

• Members/Participants (2025):

• Core: Indonesia & United States. Expanded to include: Australia, Japan, Singapore, UK, France, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, Brazil, and South Korea.

• Core: Indonesia & United States.

• Expanded to include: Australia, Japan, Singapore, UK, France, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, Brazil, and South Korea.

• Features:

• Held in Jakarta and Sumatra, running for 11 days. Includes joint combat training, interoperability drills, and a combined live-fire exercise. Strengthens coordination in air, land, and maritime operations. Reflects principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity, and collective deterrence.

• Held in Jakarta and Sumatra, running for 11 days.

• Includes joint combat training, interoperability drills, and a combined live-fire exercise.

• Strengthens coordination in air, land, and maritime operations.

• Reflects principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity, and collective deterrence.

• Significance:

• Enhances regional defence ties in an Indo-Pacific marked by rising China-U.S. rivalry. Demonstrates unity against coercion or forceful status-quo changes (esp. in South China Sea). Symbolises an “arc of alliances” ensuring Indo-Pacific stability.

• Enhances regional defence ties in an Indo-Pacific marked by rising China-U.S. rivalry.

• Demonstrates unity against coercion or forceful status-quo changes (esp. in South China Sea).

• Symbolises an “arc of alliances” ensuring Indo-Pacific stability.