Pindad Commemorates the 36th Anniversary, Innovation for the Country

PT Pindad (Persero) held the peak of its 36th anniversary on Sunday, April 28th, at Pindad Bandung headquarters. The anniversary celebration was attended by the President Director, Abraham Mose along with the Board of Directors, Indonesian Police Deputy Chief Ari Dono, Deputy President Commissioner of Pindad, other BUMNs representatives, government institution representatives and public communities. The theme of this year's Anniversary is Innovation for the Country. The 36th Pindad Anniversary commemorated on April 29th, which will be marked by a flag ceremony with all employees.

Shortly before giving a speech, Abraham Mose drove an Anoa Panzer and performed some maneuvers in front of the main stage. He hopes the growth of company performance and the enthusiasm of the employees to provide the best Indonesia through innovation, as well as becoming a place to promote friendship and socialization between employees, business people and public communities.

Meanwhile the Head of the 36th Anniversary Committee, Wijil Jadmiko Budi said this year's theme, Innovation for the Country is the spirit to always provide the best for the country. It is the spirit that will be presented through the series of the 36th Pindad Anniversary from April 1st to 29th.

Previously, Pindad had held a series of events to commemorate the 36th Pindad Anniversary since the beginning of April, until its peak on April 27th & 28th which was celebrated with public communities. The various events consist of; fun work, various sports competitions between employees, casual bike riding, gymnastics competitions, coloring competitions for children, panzer-pulling competitions, rifle shooting competitions, e-sports competitions, and photography competitions. There is an UKM bazaar, Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOE) stand and National Defense and High Tech Industry (NDHI) stand.

The highlight of the event was also to present GIGI and Virzha guest stars on different days to entertain all employees and the people of Bandung City. After holding various interesting events, the 36th anniversary of Pindad was closed with a fireworks show which was also made by the Pindad Munition Division.

Pindad also inaugurated the latest munition production facilities in the Division of Munitions, Turen Malang which was marked by the signing of an inscription by the Minister of SOE, Rini M Soemarno at Gedung Sate, Bandung on Saturday, April 6th. There were 7 new munition production facilities inaugurated, those were the 5.56mm Caliber Assembling Process building, Primary Composition Making Process building, Primer Loading Process building, Tetrazen Process building, Ballistic Field building, Explosion Chamber building and GL & AGL Field buildings.

Pindad also participates in various social activities involving the community and aimed for environmental conservation. Starting from kid mass circumcision event, grand Qur'an recitation event, blood donation and planting 3636 trees. In addition, Pindad also inaugurated the Anoa Panzer Monument in Taman Cibeunying, Bandung to foster sense of pride and love of domestic products and bring Pindad products closer to the public.

Pindad also held an exhibition showing various defense & security products that had the role of supporting the sovereignty of the NKRI. The latest innovation weapons such as Mag 4, Armor V1-V3, SPR 4 and various other superior weapons and various caliber munitions are displayed. The latest Special Vehicles are also displayed such as Harimau Medium Tank, Badak Panzer, Anoa Panzer, Komodo special vehicle. Special weapons and vehicle products seize the attention of visitors, especially for those who want to ride the vehicles, take photos and try to hold the displayed weapons products.

In addition to defense and security products, Pindad also displays a variety of Industrial business products including industrial machinery, traction motors, railroad hooks, tractors and agricultural machinery, ship cranes until the latest products from the excavator line, the Excava 50.