The China-Indonesia Peace (Heping) Garuda-2024 joint Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) exercise held a closing ceremony at an Indonesian air force base on Saturday.
The joint exercise, which kicked off on Dec 1, was held simultaneously in several camps of the Indonesian National Army in Jakarta and Banten Province of Indonesia, with the participation of troops from land, sea and air forces of both sides.
At the closing ceremony, the officers and soldiers of the two armies organized cultural exchange activities and weapons and equipment display. The commanders of both sides addressed the ceremony, summarizing the outcomes of the joint exercise while putting forward prospects for the two sides to deepen military exchanges in the future.
"Through the joint exercise, we have deepened the pragmatic cooperation between the two armies and improved the joint action capabilities of the troops. Our two sides also jointly strengthened the justice forces for maintaining regional peace and stability. We look forward to holding joint exercises with the Indonesian National Army on a larger scale, with more subjects and at a higher level in the future," said Zheng Hua, an officer of the command and coordination department of China-Indonesia "Peace Garuda-2024" joint exercise.
In this joint exercise which lasted over a period of six days, the two sides conducted joint exercises and training on multiple subjects of the three services of land, sea and air, including mobile water source treatment, natural disaster rescue operations, maritime search and rescue, vertical rescue, parachute training, and material airdrops.
During the training, participants of both sides overcame difficulties such as bad weather and technical and tactical differences, fully exchanged and discussed their ideas and made all-out efforts in actual combat training, which achieved fruitful results.
China-Indonesia "Peace Garuda 2024" joint exercise concludes
