Indonesia takes delivery of corvette

The Indonesian navy has taken delivery of the second of four corvettes ordered from the Netherlands. The 1,600-tonne Sigma-class corvette, named ?KRI Hasanuddin-366?, will join the navy’s Western Fleet as a patrol ship.

Four of the missile-equipped ships were ordered from the Schelde naval shipyard in the Netherlands in January 2004. The first ship arrived in August last year, while the third and fourth ships are expected to arrive between late 2008 and mid-2009. The Indonesian navy, which operates across a country made up of more than 17,000 islands, has a fleet of 130 ships and around 170,000 personnel.