Abstract
Indonesia’s characteristics as an archipelagic state along with the increase of traditional and non-traditional threats in Indonesia require the ownership of military amphibious aircraft to oversee its maritime territories and perform logistics distribution to remote areas with minimum accessibility, especially its outermost islands. This study applied a combination of analytic hierarchy process (AHP), Political, Economic, Social, Techonology, Environment, and Legal (PESTEL) and Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, and Threat (SWOT) analysis to conduct a structured, systematic, measurable, and comprehensive decision-making process for selecting military amphibious aircraft and prescribe strategic recommendations on the acquisition plan. By using 3 criteria, 14 sub-criteria, and 3 alternative aircraft models, the results of AHP analysis showed that the Beriev Be-200 aircraft are the most preferred aircraft by the Indonesian users. The results of PESTEL-SWOT analysis show that good diplomatic relations between Indonesia and the manufacturer’s country of origin, users’ support to the plan, and user’s ability to adapt in operating and maintaining the aircraft support this decision. Meanwhile, limited fiscal capacity and domestic aircraft maintenance facilities/depots, as well as the risk of spare parts scarcity, have to be addressed for Indonesia to acquire its own military amphibious aircrafts.
Highlights
Indonesia is an archipelagic country which consists of 17,504 islands and a coastline of104,000 km [1]
This study summarized the crucial aspects of maintenance that need to be considered in the selection of alternative military amphibious aircraft acquisitions, including the availability of spare parts, human resources capacity, maintenance facilities/depot capacity, availability of domestic and foreign maintenance service providers
This study has successfully applied a combination of several strategic decision-making methods, namely analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and PESTEL-SWOT, to produce useful results as a scientific recommendation and reference on military amphibious aircraft acquisition decision-making for defense sector policymakers in Indonesia
Summary
Indonesia is an archipelagic country which consists of 17,504 islands and a coastline of104,000 km [1]. Indonesia is an archipelagic country which consists of 17,504 islands and a coastline of. With the enactment of the 1982 United Nations Conventions on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), Indonesia has a total land area of 1.9 million km and 6.4 million km waters that consist of 0.29 million km of territorial sea, 3.11 million km of archipelagic waters, and 3 million km of Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) [2]. Indonesia directly border with ten neighboring countries, namely Australia, Timor Leste, Papua New Guinea, Palau, the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore and India. This unique geographical characteristic of Indonesia has several implications for national defense. Some of them are to protect its marine environment, ensure the safety of shipping activities in its waters, carry out law enforcement in its sovereign territory; and eradicate piracy, narcotics trafficking, and human trafficking [2]
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