Bravo Detachment 90

The Bravo Detachment 90 is a counter-terrorism unit whose personnel are specialists recruited and chosen from the Indonesian Air Force's Paskhas corps. It is the youngest special operations unit of the Indonesian Air Force. The unit specialises in the paralysing of the enemy's heavy equipment.

Bravo Detachment 90
Satuan Bravo 90
Active16 September 1990 – present
Country Indonesia
Branch Indonesian Air Force
TypeSpecial forces
Special missions unit
RoleCounter-Terrorism
Hostage rescue
Special operations
SizeClassified
Part of
Garrison/HQRumpin Air Force Base, Bogor, West Java

The unit specialise in hostage rescue involving hijacked aircraft.[1][2]

In April 2008, the Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, was made an honorary member of the unit.[3][4]

History

Initially, there were 34 personnel in Bravo: 1 commanding officer, 3 group commander, and 30 troops. No information has been released about this unit from its limited formation until the end of the 1990s. In this vacuum, it is believed that its members were assigned into Kopaskhasaus Demonstration and Training Unit (Satdemolat). It was only on 9 September 1999 that the special forces detachment was formally established.

Bravo's personnel are recruited from the best graduates of Paskhas training in the Air Force. About 5 to 10 Paskhas graduates are recruited for this elite unit each year. To train in its anti-terror techniques, the unit also trains at the Army's Sat-81 Gultor (Kopassus) GMF facility and aeroplane hostage rescue trainings, Marines' Denjaka facility for off-shore airfields infiltration and attack trainings, Navy's KOPASKA facility for underwater demolition trainings, Indonesian Police's Gegana Detachment facility for anti-bomb unit trainings and with the British Special Air Service Regiment for direct action, counter-terrorism, special intelligence and HALO/HAHO skills.

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 18 June 2008. Retrieved 19 August 2008.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. Power politics and the Indonesian military By Damien Kingsbury
  3. ""His Majesty the Sultan of Brunei Darussalam receives honorary titles", Ministry of Defence, Brunei Darussalam, 23 April 2008". Archived from the original on 12 May 2008. Retrieved 19 August 2008.
  4. "Hassanal Bolkiah". Archived from the original on 2 April 2014. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
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