Boeing has confirmed a termination of talks for an Indonesian procurement of the F-15 fighter, with the choice disclosed on February 3 throughout the Singapore Airshow, ending hopes for a sale of what’s by far the heaviest and most expensive tactical fight plane produced within the Western world. “By way of our F-15 partnership with Indonesia, it’s now not an energetic marketing campaign for us,” Boeing’s vice chairman for enterprise growth and technique Bernd Peters noticed. Indonesia had initially signed an settlement protecting the deliberate buy of 24 F-15 fighter in early 2023, with the F-15IDN deliberate to be based mostly on the identical configuration because the F-15EX at present in manufacturing for by the U.S. Air Pressure, however with modifications tailor-made to Indonesian operational necessities. The F-15EX at present has just one international shopper, specifically the Israeli Defence Ministry, with Boeing having begun work on the plane ordered by Israel in late December.
Relations between Jakarta and Washington have worsened considerably since 2023, with Indonesian sources broadly reporting that the US was enjoying a central function in organising mass riots throughout a lot of the nation from August 2025. Jakarta’s shut financial and tech sector ties with China have led nations throughout a lot of the Western world to hunt to impose strain on it, together with utilizing threats of financial sanctions. Indonesia’s curiosity within the F-15 was considered a results of a perceived requirement for a contemporary heavyweight lengthy vary fighter to succeed the Su-27 and Su-30 in service, with solely China, Russia, and the US, producing such plane, whereas China doesn’t provide its personal for export. The Air Pressure had beforehand deliberate to obtain the Russian Su-35, slightly than the F-15, earlier than threats of U.S. sanctions collapsed the deal.
The Indonesian Defence Ministry ordered 11 Russian Su-35S fighters in February 2018 , with additional procurements of the kind anticipated so as to equip a number of squadrons. In August 2018 the Indonesian Commerce Ministry Worldwide Commerce Director Normal Oke Nurwan confirmed that“the U.S. is making an attempt to intervene” to scupper a deal underneath which Su-35s can be paid for by barter commerce. The$1.1 billion deal was confirmed in 2024 to have been placed on maintain, primarily as a consequence of Washington’s sanctions threats made underneath the Countering American Adversaries Via Sanctions Act (CAATSA). These threats had been thought of among the many elements that led the Indonesian authorities to hunt to ‘sanctions proof’ its economic system, which it did notably quickly from early 2022 with by way of equivalent to decreasing reliance on Western fee programs.
In October 2025 Indonesian Defence Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin and a number of different native officers confirmed that the Defence Ministry had positioned an order to obtain 42 Chinese language J-10C ‘4+ era’ fighter plane. This adopted the J-10C’s reported main successes within the arms of the Pakistan Air Pressure in early Could in capturing down a number of Indian fighters, together with not less than one Rafale. Though the J-10C is a a lot shorter ranged plane than the F-15 or the Su-35, its sustainment prices and upkeep wants are very considerably decrease, permitting the plane to be procured in a lot higher numbers for operations from a number of bases throughout the nation. The J-10C’s armaments and avionics are considerably extra superior than these of the Su-35, and broadly on par with these of the F-15EX, though the anticipated in depth downgrading of fighters delivered by the Untied States signifies that the J-10s will seemingly present a superior fight capability at a fraction of the associated fee.
