[ppi] [ppiindia] Indonesia Denies Human Rights Abuses

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      Saturday July 30, 6:55 PM
      Indonesia Denies Human Rights Abuses
      Indonesia denied Saturday that any of its security forces trained in the 
United States had a history of human rights violations, as alleged in a report 
released by a U.S. congressional investigative office. 

      The Government Accountability Office said in the report issued Friday 
that military trainers violated U.S. law by instructing 6,900 Indonesian, 
Filipino and Thai police without determining beforehand whether they had a 
history of human rights violations. 

      The Southeast Asian police were trained by the U.S. Justice Department 
with State Department law enforcement assistance between 2001 and 2004 at a 
cost of $265.7 million, the report said. 

      Among the 4,000 Indonesians trained in civil-military relations and human 
rights issues were 32 trainees "from a notorious special-forces police unit 
previously prohibited under State (Department) policy from receiving U.S. 
training funds because of the unit's prior human rights abuses," the report 
said. 

      But Indonesia's National Police Spokesman Brig. Gen. Sunarko Danu Artanto 
said the report was the work of forces aimed at derailing efforts to reform his 
department. The police have received massive U.S. training in recent years 
because of a long-standing U.S. ban on providing assistance to the military. 

      "We deeply regret such accusations which are blown up by some parties who 
do not want to see our personnel become professional," Artanto said, adding 
that none of the officers trained had human rights violations. "Indonesia needs 
professional security forces to fight against global crime and terrorism acts. 
We have always carried out our duties with respect to human rights."  

      But rights activists say the report was not surprising and reaffirms 
their concerns that the United States is moving too quickly to normalize ties 
with Indonesia's historically corrupt and abusive security forces. 

      "We recognize that police need professional training, but it should be 
given for only selected officers with a clean human rights record," said Usman 
Hamid, a human rights activist. "From our past experience, we have seen that 
there is no accountability or justice in this country for human rights
     


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