Hmmm what if we cancel KF-21, F-15ID and go full Rafale instead ? Something like 80-100 Rafale
I'd say its fair option if Rafale had a solid availability rate.....but it doesn't (somewhere around 55%?).
Some here bring up the Engine ToT or MRO knowhow etc.... French bargain hard on that stuff just like anyone else....so that will not be some easy thing to do/absorb even with a 5 - 6 squadron order.
Indonesia best bet there is to broaden industrial gas turbine research with: Germany, Canada and US.
(in about that order and over the next 1 - 2 decades).
UK and France are also good for it.... but tend to be (from what I seen) more exclusive + saturated backlog with whom they let into their best programs as their industrial funding + experience is more monolith compared to other 3.
Japan from what I know I would put among the first 3 somewhere as well.
With that core more established, Indonesia can then progress to marine and aviation stuff more readily and use experienced consultants from the relevant big guys to smooth the edges into the relevant capacities then.
In the end its how you structure (and persevere with) the qualitative manhours committed (both abroad and onshore) to broaden the absorption capability.....there are no shortcuts here that big orders etc can provide.
Along the way, there is lot to do to teethe and prove like cruise missile (one time use engine) or smaller scale turboshafts etc....those are extra benefits in charting things properly.
