[list_indonesia] [ppiindia] Are you in favour of the resumption of US-Indonesian military ties?
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- Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 12:43:02 -0000
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Di Yahoo! Asia Indonesia Edition sedang diadakan pool dgn pertanyaan
seperti pada judul post ini. Dari hasil yg sudah terkumpul sementara,
yang dapat dilihat di
http://sg.polls.yahoo.com/public/archives/95992018/p-95992018-34?m=r ,
ternyata hasilnya adalah:
Yes, it will pave the way for more cooperation 58% 108 votes
No, we need to work with the US on military matters 26% 48 votes
Not sure 16% 30 votes
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http://asia.news.yahoo.com/050228/ap/d88hdl0g1.html
Human rights groups decry resumption of US-Indonesian military ties
Human rights groups on Monday condemned a decision by the United
States to resume limited ties with the Indonesian military, which is
accused of committing widespread abuses in the country and its former
province, East Timor.
"The (move) is a setback for justice, human rights and democratic
reform," said John Miller, spokesman for the New York-based East Timor
Action Network. "The Indonesian military's many victims throughout the
country and East Timor will recognize this policy shift as a betrayal
of their quests for justice and accountability."
On Saturday, the U.S. State Department announced that Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice determined that Jakarta had cooperated with the
FBI's investigation into the murders of two American schoolteachers
during an ambush in Indonesia's Papua province.
Congress had set this as a condition on Indonesia's participation in a
U.S. military training program, which is generally viewed as a first
step to lifting a ban on military-to-military ties between the two
countries.
"This shows the United States places its strategic interests ahead of
human rights concerns," said Hendardi, a prominent human rights lawyer
in Jakarta. "I don't understand what they mean when they say Indonesia
has made progress on human rights issues, because that's not what's
happening here."
Indonesian armed forces chief Gen. Endriartono Sutarto welcomed the move.
"We are very thankful that this program will be reopened because it is
a manifestation of the mutual respect between our two countries," he
told reporters. "We will use this to improve the quality of our
personnel."
The armed forces of the two nations cooperated closely in the 1970s
and 80s, during the military-backed regime of former Indonesian
dictator Suharto. But Washington imposed a ban on military ties with
Indonesia in 1999, after its troops devastated its former province of
East Timor following a U.N.-organized independence referendum.
Congress later passed legislation making the reestablishment of
contacts contingent on Jakarta's cooperation in bringing to justice
those responsible for the Papua killings.
An initial police report on the ambush blamed army troops, but the
subsequent FBI probe led to the indictment by a U.S. grand jury of an
Indonesian citizen, Anthonius Wamang, the suspected triggerman in the
attack.
Wamang, who pro-independence activists maintain is a military
informer, remains at large.
"Given this lack of progress (in the investigation), the State
Department's certification of cooperation is false and misleading,"
said Miller. "It has far more to do with fulfilling the
administration's long-term goal of re-engagement with the Indonesian
military, than bringing to justice all those responsible for the
ambush or encouraging democratic reforms."
In the past two months, the two countries' militaries have worked
closely together in relief efforts in the tsunami-ravaged Aceh
province, prompting Bush administration officials to renew calls for
restoring ties with the world's most populous Muslim nation.
The administration says it needs the cooperation of the Indonesian
armed forces in its global war on terrorism. It also insists military
ties would strengthen Indonesia's fledging democracy.
But analysts say it is also seeking to counterbalance China's growing
economic and strategic clout in Southeast Asia by resurrecting its
close relationship with the Indonesian military.
Miller noted it was "obviously inconsistent" that the Bush
administration was re-establishing ties with Indonesia's brutal
military while pressing the European Union not to lift the arms
embargo on China imposed after the 1989 crackdown at Tiananmen Square.
"Whereas continued restrictions on engagement are seen as a way to
pressure China, lifting all restrictions is seen as the cure-all for
Indonesia."
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