Indonesia ordered building of torpedo motor boats at German shipyard Luerssen, Bremen according to the Dutch newspaper De Waarheid dated 5 December 1958

An item reported that the Indonesian cabinet ordered a day earlier the building of six torpedo motor boats with a value of 30.000.000 German mark at the shipyard of Luerssen in Bremen. Original was the intention to built the ships in England but the British cabinet did not agree for political reasons. The German shipyard already delivered a large number of fast patrol vessels to the Indonesian government police used for preventing smuggling.