[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Protests as US restores military ties with Jakarta
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Protests as US restores military ties with Jakarta
By Shawn Donnan in Jakarta
Published: November 24 2005 02:00 | Last updated: November 24 2005 02:00
Six years after Washington imposed an arms embargo on Indonesia as punishment
for the slaughter its military led in East Timor, the US has restored full
military ties in a move recognising Jakarta's place as a frontline participant
in the US-led war against terrorism.
Human rights groups decried the decision, announced late on Tuesday. "With the
stroke of a pen," said the Washington-based East Timor Action Network, the Bush
administration "betrayed the untold tens of thousands of victims of the
Indonesian military's brutality in Indonesia and [East Timor] and undermined
efforts at democratic reform".
But while rights groups were outraged, analysts said the move recognised the
reality that international pressure had done little to secure justice for the
1,500 people killed at the time of a 1999 vote for independence, and other
victims of Indonesian military brutality in East Timor.
Among those killed was Sander Thoenes, the FT's Jakarta correspondent at the
time.
"For Jakarta and the rest of the world, East Timor - or rather that episode -
is kind of moving into past history," said a senior western diplomat yesterday.
A United Nations panel of experts urged the Security Council earlier this year
to move towards the establishment of a special tribunal on East Timor, if
Jakarta did not deliver credible steps to punish senior military officers
indicted by UN prosecutors and others responsible.
What is likely to be a heart-wrenching final report of a UN-sanctioned East
Timorese truth and reconciliation commission is also due to be made public on
Monday.
Analysts and diplomats said, however, that even international rights activists
had begun to accept in recent months that the formation of an international
tribunal was unlikely.
The reason is the eagerness of the US and other western nations not to upset an
increasingly strategically important country - Indonesia is the world's largest
Muslim nation - or embarrass the one-year-old government of President Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono, widely seen as the best to have emerged in Jakarta since the
1998 fall of strongman Suharto.
US military ties with Indonesia were scaled back after a 1992 massacre in East
Timor and further curtailed after 1,500 were killed by pro-Jakarta militias and
the security forces in the months surrounding the August 1999 vote for
independence.
Announcing the lifting of the embargo, the US State Department said it attached
the "utmost importance" to its relationship with Jakarta and called Indonesia
"a voice of moderation in the Islamic world".
It also stressed a future focus on "counter-terrorism" aid to the military and
insisted Jakarta had made significant progress in reforming its democratic
institutions and practices.
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