Teluk Bintuni-class tank landing ship

KRI Teluk Bintuni
Class overview
Name	Teluk Bintuni class[1]
Builders	PT Dok & Perkapalan Kodja Bahari (Persero) PT Daya Radar Utama PT Bandar Abadi Shipyard
Operators	Indonesian Navy
Preceded by	Teluk Gilimanuk class
Built	2012-present
In service	2015–present
Planned	12
Completed	9
Active	9
General characteristics
Type	Landing ship tank
Displacement	2,300 tons
Length	117–120 m (383 ft 10 in – 393 ft 8 in)
Beam	16–18 m (52 ft 6 in – 59 ft 1 in)
Height	11 m (36 ft 1 in)
Propulsion	2 x 3,285 kW (4,405 hp) main engines
Speed	16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Range	6,240 nmi (11,560 km; 7,180 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Capacity	10 unit Leopard 2A4 main battle tanks or 15 unit BMP-3F infantry fighting vehicles 4 unit LCVPs 1 unit RIB 10 m rubber boat 2 unit RIB 7 m rubber boat
Troops	361
Complement	119 total
Armament	117 meters variant: 2 x Bofors 40 mm/L70 guns 2 x 12.7 mm machine guns 120 meters variant: 1 x Bofors 40 mm/L70 guns 1 x 20 mm cannon 2 x 12.7 mm machine guns
Aircraft carried	2 x 10-ton helicopter

The Teluk Bintuni class, Indonesian designation AT-117M is a class of tank landing ships that is being built indigenously for the Indonesian Navy by various Indonesian local shipyards. It was announced that the Indonesian Navy intends to acquire a total of twelve vessels of the same class with some modifications from the lead ship to improve ship's capability.^[2]

Teluk Bintuni has a length of 120 metres (393 ft 8 in), a beam measuring 18 metres (59 ft 1 in), and a height of 7.8 metres (25 ft 7 in) with a draft of 3 metres (9 ft 10 in). She has a capacity of 476 passengers, including crew, alongside 10 Leopard 2 main battle tanks and a helicopter. The ship was designed to be able to stay at sea for 20 days.^[3]

With a crew of 119, consisting of 113 sailors and 6 helicopter crew, she has a displacement of 2,300 tonnes and has a maximum speed of 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph). The ship is armed with light defensive weapons in form of a Bofors 40 mm gun and two 12.7 mm heavy machine guns.^[4]

The vessel could also carry four LCVP boats, and is equipped with a crane for cargo loading and offloading.^[5]

In January 2018, during a naval landing exercise at the Berhala Strait, Teluk Bintuni received a signal from a tugboat which was being hijacked by pirates. The vessel launched an LCVP and apprehended the hijackers.^[6] She later brought supplies to areas affected by the 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami.^[7]

In August 2019, Teluk Lada was dispatched to rescue hostages aboard MV Mina Sejati, a 36-crew squid fishing vessel which was hijacked by several members of her own crew off Tual, Maluku.^[8][9] Mina Sejati was later discovered empty by Teluk Lada, with eleven survivors testifying that three of the crew had massacred the others.^[10]

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