Media Release
13 November 2024
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) and the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) conducted an amphibious landing at Banongan Beach, Indonesia on 13 November during Exercise Keris Woomera.
This amphibious beach landing was the largest and most complex combined joint exercise Australia and Indonesia have conducted together.
During the exercise, tanks, ships, fighter aircraft, landing craft, attack helicopters and approximately 2,000 personnel from both militaries worked together after an amphibious landing on Banongan Beach.
Exercise Keris Woomera highlights the ongoing cooperation between Australia and Indonesia, strengthened by the recent signing of the Australia-Indonesia Defence Cooperation Agreement—the most significant defence agreement in the history of the bilateral relationship.
Exercise Keris Woomera is part of Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2024, Australia’s largest military engagement activity in the region.
“Over the last week Australia and Indonesia have been working together on a large-scale rehearsal, practising a range of activities from transferring forces from ship to shore, to humanitarian and disaster relief evacuation scenarios,” said Captain Chris Doherty RAN, Commander Amphibious Task Force of the ADF.
“Exercise Keris Woomera demonstrates that the ADF and TNI are ready to work together to deal with shared security challenges in our region,” said Colonel Judd Finger, Commander Landing Forces of the ADF. “We have demonstrated our ability to safely bring our Navy, Army and Air Forces together to conduct amphibious operations from surface to shore and air to shore.”
The combined joint amphibious exercise will be followed by a humanitarian evacuation and disaster relief evacuation scenario, and a combined joint live fire exercise in the coming days.
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