Korea and Indonesia on Wednesday discussed efforts to diversify their defense industry cooperation, including co-development of defense assets and joint arms exports to third markets, Seoul's arms agency said. The topics were addressed during a regular bilateral meeting on defense industry cooperation in Jakarta, led by officials from the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) and Indonesia's defense ministry, DAPA said. "Officials discussed ways to diversify partnership models between the two countries' defense firms, including joint development, local production and joint exports to third-party markets," the arms agency said. Both sides also reviewed the status of major ongoing defense cooperation projects and discussed follow-up steps to implement them, it added. Korea has been developing its indigenous KF-21 fighter jet in partnership with Indonesia under an agreement to share development costs in exchange for technology transfers to Jakarta. But the project had hit snags as Jakarta sought to scale back its financial contribution in exchange for a reduced transfer of techno