Ukraine is preparing the expansion of military and technical cooperation with Indonesia: the sides are holding negotiations on a possibility of supplying Ukrainian An-148-300MP maritime patrol planes to the Asia-Pacific Region (APR).

The press service of Ukrspecexport state-run company reported on Thursday that during the negotiations between Ukrspecexport Director General Pavlo Bukin and Indonesian Navy officers at the IndoDefence-2016 Expo&Forum (Jakarta, Indonesia), Ukraine announced a possibility of supplying An-148-300MP maritime patrol planes to an Indonesian customer with the future transfer of assembly technologies to apply at an Indonesian aircraft building plant.

Indonesian partners pointed out a large potential of the Ukrainian defense industrial complex and high professionalism in military and technical cooperation with Ukraine.