Overview
- The foreign and defense ministers agreed to intensify maritime security cooperation through expanded personnel exchanges and joint training.
- The two countries began formal discussions between defense authorities on protecting military information.
- Bilateral work under Japan’s Official Security Assistance program will deepen, including free provision of defense equipment to like-minded countries.
- A new vice-ministerial Defense Strategy Dialogue will coordinate cooperation on defense equipment and technology.
- The Tokyo meeting was the third Japan–Indonesia 2+2 and the first since 2021, with ministers expressing concern over unilateral attempts to change the status quo in the East and South China Seas.