Indonesian Army Territorial Forces Command

The Indonesian Army Territorial Forces Command (Indonesian: Pusat Teritorial TNI Angkatan Darat) is a Indonesian Army Central Executive Agency under the Chief of Staff of the Army charged with building and maintaining the army's territorial defense and development functions to help the Army achieve its mission of contributing its efforts for the defense of the Indonesian nation and people and to sustain the continuing development of the Republic.

Brief history
Established on 3 February 1979 as the then Army Territorial Development Service (Pusat Pengembangan Teritorial TNI-AD) under the Army Doctrine, Education and Training Development Command, the Territorial Forces Command was formed as part of the national Total Defence and Security System (TDSS) (Indonesian: Sistem Pertahanan Keamanan Rakyat Semesta (Sishankamrata)) strategy to help train Army officers, warrant officers, non-commissioned officers and enlisted personnel to sustain the functions and capabilities of territorial defence within the Army and help develop and operate a community defence strategic plan for every village, subdistrict/district, regency, and city. To achieve its goals, the Territorial Defence Training School (Pusat Pendidikan Teritorial (Pusdikter)) in Bandung was also established at the same time to assist the education of Army personnel in the aspect of terrtorial defence and development. Renamed the Territorial Education Service, it was granted its present name and status in 2007 as a directly reporting unit of the office of the Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Army.

Today the Pusterad is charged as the lead Army agency training Army personnel in the following aspects:


 * Territorial Defense Development and Education
 * Territorial Defense System and Method Development
 * Development of Territorial Defense Capabilities
 * Territorial Defence Assessment and Development