The Urgency of the Defense Intelligence Agency in The Ministry of Defense Organizational Structure

Abstract

Intelligence is an essential part of modern organizations. Related to the modern organization, the defense intelligence agency is compulsory of the defense ministry organization. Defense intelligence's job is to look for some information and then to proceed into intelligence analysis products. This intelligence analysis product is needed by Minister for decision making and also for policy analysis to formulate some defense policies. The problem arises from the absence of a structural defense intelligence organization in Indonesia’s Ministry of Defense. The idea of performing defense intelligence is still being debated, so the defense intelligence function is currently carried out by the defense strategic installation agency. This paper discusses the reasons for the urgency of a defense intelligence organization structurally under the ministry of defense. The results in this discussion indicate the need for a defense intelligence organization. Several reasons are that intelligence is a feature of modern organizations; defense intelligence is needed in the policy formulation cycle. Defense intelligence is required to support defense diplomacy. Methodology in this writing uses a descriptive qualitative method based on data collected from scientific journals, books, and statements of resource persons obtained from open sources. For a recommendation, intelligence stakeholders need to respond to the initiation of the formation of a defense intelligence agency