IMPHAL, February 21: Exercise Garuda Shakti-III, the 3rd exercise in the ongoing series of joint exercises between armies of India and Indonesia, conducted at the Counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School in Vairengte, Mizoram from February 9 to 21.
A release of PIB (Defence Wing), Imphal said that the exercise is aimed at building and promoting positive military to military relations between the armies of the two nations.
The scope of the exercise include sharing experience in counterterrorism and conduct of joint counterinsurgency training at platoon level aimed at neutralizing of terrorist threat, it said.
Indian Army was represented by troops from an Indian Infantry Battalion and Special Forces unit while personnel from 432 Battalion Kostrad Infantry (Airborne) and Gp I & Gp II of the Special Forces represented the Indonesian contingent, it said.
The joint training was aimed at enhancing the knowledge of each other`™s military experience, skills and techniques and thereby enhancing the aspect of interoperability and responsiveness to a common threat in the future, it added.