KRI ''Teluk Parigi'' (539) is a operated the

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. The ship was former ''Anklam'' (635) of the

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Characteristics

KRI ''Teluk Parigi'' is a Project 108 (

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: Frosch I) regular medium landing ship. ''Teluk Parigi'' has a length of , a beam of , with a draught of and her displacement is at full load. The ship is powered by two diesel engines, with total power output of distributed in two shaft. She has a speed of and complement of 46 personnel. The ship has cargo capacity of . As ''Anklam'', she was initially armed with two twin 57 mm guns, two

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twin barrel 30 mm guns and equipped with Muff Cob fire control radar. She may have been equipped with two 40-tube 122 mm rocket launchers. As ''Teluk Parigi'', the ship are rearmed with one single Bofors 40 mm L/60 gun, one twin V-11 37 mm L/63 guns, and two twin 2М-3 25 mm autocannons.

Service history

''Anklam'' was built by VEB Peenewerft,

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. The ship was laid down on 21 February 1977, launched on 22 September 1977 and was commissioned to Volksmarine on 14 July 1978. Following the

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, ''Anklam'' was deleted on 1 October 1990 and was formally decommissioned from Volksmarine on 2 October. The unified

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didn't take over the ship and she was laid up with her pennant number painted over at

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Naval Base, awaiting her disposal as scrap metal. Indonesian Navy acquired the ship on 25 August 1993 as part of warship procurement program headed by the then State Minister for Research and Technology,

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, as the Coordinator of the Procurement Team. The procurement program was based on the Presidential Instruction No. 3/1992 issued by

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on 3 September 1992 which aimed to bolster the Navy capabilities. Prior to sailing for Indonesia, she was refitted and demilitarized in Germany. The ship arrived in Indonesia in 1995 and she was commissioned as KRI ''Teluk Parigi'' (539) on 21 July 1995.

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