ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the current process of military change in Indonesia. It describes the magnitude of the challenge to reforming Indonesia's military. The chapter discusses the main domestic and external drivers behind Indonesia's current military modernization. It looks at the progress made, as well as the ongoing impediments to turning the Tentara Nasional Indonesia (TNI) into a more modern defence organization. It provides an outlook on the future prospects for TNI reform. TNI lost its dominant position in internal security to the Indonesian National Police (INP). The TNI's most pressing task is to secure Indonesia's massive maritime Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Indonesia's political elites also recognized a need to strengthen the military instrument to address a changing external security environment in the broader Asia-Pacific region. The primary driver for military reform during the first decade of the young Indonesian democracy was the establishment of civilmilitary relations.
