Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —
Taiwan, a small area with a population of only 23.6 million or more or less twice the population of the capital city of Indonesia, DKI Jakarta.
Quotes Global Fire Power, Taiwan’s population reaches 23,603,049. The population in Indonesia itself reaches 267,026,366, sourced from the same data. Quoted from World Population Review 2021, the population in Jakarta reached 10,915,364.
Although the population is far less than Indonesia, it is not reflected in their budget for preparing weapons. The amount of Taiwan’s budget for the main tool of the defense system (alutsista) and military modernization even beats Indonesia.
Taiwan has always been wary of the threat from China by prioritizing the budget for defense.
Quoted from Global Fire Power, Taiwan’s military and defense budget reaches US $ 13 billion or equivalent to Rp. 185 trillion. Meanwhile, Indonesia’s military and defense budget is only US$9.2 billion (equivalent to Rp130 trillion). Global Fire Power.
Meanwhile, Taiwan’s population reached 23,603,049. The population in Indonesia itself reaches 267,026,366, sourced from the same data.
Taiwan’s military budget, which defeated Indonesia, was influenced by China’s increasing threat to the country’s sovereignty.
As is known, Chinese aircraft frequently enter Taiwan’s air defense zone.
Previously, Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense reported the number of attacks by Chinese warplanes into the air defense identification zone (ADIZ). For two consecutive days from Friday (1/10) to Saturday (2/10) night, there were 77 combat aircraft that entered ADIZ.
The attack on Friday (1/10) coincided with the celebration of 72 years since China’s founding in 1949. Taiwan and China have ‘broken up’ since the end of the civil war more than seven decades ago where the defeated Nationalists fled to Taipei, Taiwan.
However, until now Beijing still considers Taiwan as an inseparable part of its territory, even though the Chinese Communist Party has never ruled the democratic island of about 24 million people.
Taiwan also said its country was ready for war with China.
“If China starts a war against Taiwan, we will fight to the end. That’s our commitment. I believe that if China is going to attack Taiwan, I think they will suffer too,” Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said in an interview with the ABC on Monday. 4/10).
The interview comes amid increasing Chinese military provocations in the Taiwan Strait.
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