There are many stories of KRI Diponegoro 365, the battleship was two years old or younger with advanced technology Sigma Class Corvettes that had just completed the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon.

The story ran about the photographs with Lebanese girls are beautiful and fashionable to 14 crew who had to swim around the KRI Diponegoro in the Mediterranean Sea as the initiation of promotion. "The girls that Lebanon might be the fairest in the world, if men-men, well let's love domestic products," joke of a crew, some time after leaning on the KRI Diponegoro Sea Military Traffic Command, Jakarta, Thursday (19/11) .

But beneath that expense, just a story about a letter from the navy from other countries most incised gold ink on the history of our Navy. "... the cooperation with your crew was outstanding and very professional, in some aspects better than with our NATO partners, "so a letter from the German task force commander.


In the midst of depression will be lack of budget for major equipment weapons system, KRI Diponegoro was the first Army Navy ship that are trusted to participate in the mission of the United Nations for peace in Lebanon, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). In fact, KRI Diponegoro was the first warship from Southeast Asia who were invited to enter the UNIFIL Maritime Task Force. KRI Diponegoro 100 people who manned this duty on 18 April to 18 October 2009.

"Initially, they had a priori, their long positive to us," said 365th commander Lt. Col. KRI Diponegoro Sea (P) Arsyad Abdullah. Initial impression of countries are joined in this mission was concerned with the Indonesian delegation, are the technical things like communication format in which NATO countries have their own internal network communications. In addition, the Task Force XXVIII-A/UNIFIL Konga is also not familiar with the mission procedures.

However, the belief gradually arose. KRI Diponegoro had believed to be the tactical commander during operations, such as the Anti-Air Warfare and Electronic Warfare Commander Commander. "We often visit and they also come to know each other," said Chief of Department Operations Captain (P) Albek Aminuddin.

KRI Diponegoro NATO duty schedule in the sea zone I in front of Lebanon area 110 x 48 miles. Alternately with France, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Belgium, and Greece, they were on duty for 7-10 days. KRI Diponegoro was in the main vessel, which consists of type frigates and Corvettes.

Mission of peace to prevent weapons coming in and out of Lebanon. Simply put, the four ships were patrolling UNIFIL mission to monitor ships and aircraft into the zone I. The ships were called and matched their credentials with the existing list. KRI Diponegoro practically qualified with MW08 radar system that can deliver three-dimensional image. If too far, there is still BO 105 helicopter that had five times the calling ships coming. "If we just used radar can detect the distance and direction, now we know its height," said public relations officer KRI Diponegoro, Major (KH) Wayan.

Ship with a length of 90.71 meters which was built in the Schelde, Netherlands, in 2005 and began serving in 2007 has a system of integrated ship of war.