JAKARTA -- Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto last month spent more than two weeks on a mission to solve a long-standing riddle of how Indonesia will replace its aging fighter jets.
Minister weighs costs and diplomacy on trips to US, Austria, France and Turkey

U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons taxi upon landing at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida on Sept. 12, 2018. They are one option for Indonesian Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, who recently traveled the globe looking for alternatives to his country's aging fighter jets. (Source photos by Reuters and Getty Images)
JAKARTA -- Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto last month spent more than two weeks on a mission to solve a long-standing riddle of how Indonesia will replace its aging fighter jets.