Indonesian sub missing
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Indonesia’s navy is searching for a submarine with 53 people on board that lost contact yesterday and is seeking help from neighboring Australia and Singapore in the hunt.
The 43-year-old submarine, KRI Nanggala-402, was conducting a torpedo drill in waters north of the island of Bali but failed to relay the results as expected, a navy spokesperson said.
“We are still searching in the waters of Bali, 96 kilometers from Bali, (for) 53 people,” military chief Hadi Tjahjanto said.
Tjahjanto confirmed that assistance in the search for the submarine and missing crew had been sought from Australia and Singapore. He said that contact with the vessel was lost at 4:30am yesterday.
Representatives of the defense departments of Australia and Singapore did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The 1,395-ton Nanggala was built in Germany in 1978, according to the Indonesian cabinet secretariat’s website, and underwent a 2-year refit in South Korea that was completed in 2012.
Indonesia in the past operated a fleet of 12 submarines purchased from the Soviet Union to patrol the waters of its sprawling archipelago.
But now it has a fleet of only five including two German-built Type 209 submarines and three newer South Korean vessels.
Indonesia has been seeking to modernize its defense capabilities.
But some of its equipment still in service is old and there have been deadly accidents in recent years.
In 2016, an Indonesian air force transport plane crashed into a mountain, killing all 13 people aboard, during a training exercise in the remote region of Papua.
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