Jakarta, July 6 -- Indonesia's Ministry of Defense supports state-owned defense manufacturer PT Pindad to expand its ammunition plants across nation.

"In the future, PT Pindad's ammunition production facilities are planned to be built on other major islands, so that defense logistics support is not only concentrated in one region," Head of the Ministry's Defense Information Bureau, Brigadier General Rico Ricardo Sirait, said in a statement received here on Monday.

Sirait said the initiative is aimed at enabling the factories to produce and distribute ammunition logistics quickly to military units stationed across the country.

As a result, the presence of the plants will directly support the Indonesian Military (TNI) in safeguarding the...