Apologize

University of Indonesia defense expert, Andi Widjajanto said that the Foreign Ministry and the TNI now had to work together to "limit the damage".

"The TNI should say that their Sukhoi jets did not try to intercept [the PNG aircraft] and were conducting standard procedures, while the Foreign Ministry shouldn't have mentioned the root and the type of the problem," he said.

"The Foreign Ministry should instead ask [the PNG government] for an apology, without blaming the TNI."

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