Super Garuda Shield 2025 Latest News
Indonesia and the United States recently launched the annual joint military exercise, Super Garuda Shield 2025.
About Super Garuda Shield
- It is a large-scale, multinational joint military exercise designed to enhance interoperability, build mutual trust, and strengthen collective readiness among the participating armed forces of partner nations.
- Originally established in 2006 as a bilateral information and training exchange between the United States and Indonesia under the name Garuda Shield, the exercise expanded in 2022 to include additional partner nations, reflecting the growing importance of defense cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region.
- The “Super” was added to the title of the exercise in 2022.
- The exercise has been held annually in Jakarta, Indonesia.
- With more than 4,100 Indonesian and 1,300 American troops taking part, the 2025 edition of Super Garuda Shield will be the largest ever.
- This year’s participating nations include Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Republic of Singapore, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
- Observing nations include Cambodia, India, and Papua New Guinea.
- It will feature maritime and field training events to include engineering construction activities, staff training exercises, airborne operations, jungle training, air assault operations, an amphibious exercise, a large field training exercise and combined arms live fire exercises, and a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) live fire exercise.
Source: TD
Last updated on January, 2026
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