However, if the exercises with China focus on combat operations and interoperability rather than nontraditional security areas such as piracy and counterterrorism and are conducted in the ...

The program includes expert academic exchanges, professional development workshops, a command-and-control exercise, and field training that culminates with a live-fire event, he added.

The annual exercises, known as Super Garuda Shield, started in Sidoarjo regency, southern East Java province, with Indonesia deploying more than 4,400 troops to the drills.