Eric Unmacht, Jakarta – Two competing perspectives have long dominated Washington when talk turns to military aid for Indonesia.

Richard Norton-Taylor – The government approved a significant increase in arms exports to Indonesia in the first few months of the year despite serious concern from MPs, Foreign Office

United States officials are debating when they might be able to resume military aid to Indonesia now that the US Department of Justice has indicted an alleged separatist for the murder

Indonesia pressed for the resumption of full military ties with the United States and access to top terror suspect Hambali, an official said.

Brendan Nicholson – Australia has resumed co-operation with the Indonesian special forces group Kopassus to help fight regional terrorism, Defence Minister Robert Hill revealed yesterda

A resumption of counter-terrorism training between Australia and Indonesia's controversial Kopassus forces appears closer, with Indonesia's top counter-terrorism officer attending a con

Australia says it's refusing to deal with some officers of Indonesia's notorious Kopassus special forces.

New York – A wide range of US organizations today urged President Bush not to offer military assistance to Indonesia when he meets President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono tomorrow.

Jakarta – Indonesia's fight against terrorism is being hampered by a US military embargo, President Megawati Sukarnoputri said Wednesday.

Aguswandi – A high court decision last Monday could have major repercussions for the democratic development of the world's fourth most populous country, which goes to the polls in natio

Jakarta – Indonesia Military (TNI) chief Gen. Endriartono Sutarto and Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) chief Maj. Gen.

Richard Norton-Taylor – Arms companies and the government are evading export controls by supplying countries with components rather than complete weapons systems whose sale would be ban

William Hardiker – In considering what constitutes an act of terrorism, one must first determine if terrorists were in fact those responsible.

Jakarta – Indonesian Military (TNI) chief Gen. Endriartono Sutarto held talks with visiting United States Pacific Commander Adm. Thomas B.

Jakarta – The Indonesian military (TNI) is keen to improve ties with the US military without being disturbed by political issues, the top military commander said here Thursday.

Richard Norton-Taylor – Human rights campaigners have accused the government of relaxing demands on Indonesia over the use of British military equipment in the country.

Brooklyn, New York – The US Congress on Thursday restored a ban on International Military Education and Training (IMET) for Indonesia, just months after President George W Bush cited a

Congress today restored a ban on International Military Education and Training (IMET) for Indonesia, just months after President Bush cited a "changed attitude" among legislators that w

Jakarta – Indonesia said Saturday it will withdraw controversial British-made Scorpion light tanks from Aceh province and replace them with a locally-produced model.

Richard Norton-Taylor and John Aglionby, Singapore – The legality of Britain's arms sales to Israel and Indonesia is to be challenged in the courts on the grounds that they breach state

Johann Hari – September 11 comes around once every three days.

Richard Norton-Taylor – The government is selling arms and security equipment to countries whose human rights record it has strongly criticised, according to lists of weapons cleared fo

John McBeth, Singapore – The US is funding, training and arming specially screened Indonesian policemen in a new pilot program that will ultimately leave Indonesia with a self- containe

Jim Lobe, Washington – Two weeks after President George W Bush announced that he was ready to normalize military ties with Indonesia, the US Senate approved an amendment to the 2004 for

Jakarta – Indonesia described on Friday the recent decision by the US Senate to hold back on educational training for the country's armed forces as a "domestic matter" for American poli

Max Lane, Jakarta – On October 13, the Indonesian armed forces (TNI) announced the cancellation of a November 6 visit to Australian Defence Force facilities in Perth by a TNI delegation

The East Timor Action Network (ETAN) today urged President Bush to set the record straight and restrict all military assistance for the Indonesian military (TNI) when he visits Bali, In

Dana Priest – President Bush misspoke when he said last week that the United States was ready to "go forward with" a new package of military training programs with Indonesia, according

Marian Wilkinson Washington, Matthew Moore Jakarta – President George Bush has announced he is ready to resume military aid to Indonesia and renew ties with its armed forces, in a state

Jakarta – The United States plans to resume cooperation with Indonesia's armed forces because the Jakarta government has assisted a US investigation into the murder of two American citi

Sydney – Australia's opposition slammed the government's plans to revive military links with Indonesia's special forces Tuesday, after the cancellation of a visit by its chief over alle

Tiarma Siboro and Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – The Indonesian Army has turned down Australia's invitation for some of its Special Forces (Kopassus) officers to talk about antiterr

Indonesia's chief security minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has called for a new defence pact with Australia, saying it was needed to promote the fight against terrorism.

Matthew Moore, Jakarta – The Australian Government has refused to allow the commander of Indonesia's Kopassus special forces to accompany his officers for anti-terrorism talks in Perth

Peter Cave: Well, the death of al-Ghozi may have been a small victory, but the continuing fight against regional terrorism has suffered a setback, it seems, with Australia and Indonesia

The Australian government's support for closer military ties with the Indonesian armed forces (TNI), including the Kopassus special forces, is a discredited form of interference in Indo

The Australian government's support for closer military ties with the Indonesian armed forces (TNI), including the Kopassus special forces, is a discredited form of interference in Indo

John Kerin – Indonesia's notorious Kopassus special forces soldiers are eager to resume counter-terrorism training with the Australian military and do not understand lingering concern a

How should Australia respond to the growing terrorist threat in Indonesia?

Canberra's moves to resume military cooperation with Jakarta, especially with the quasi-state-terror gang Kopassus, in the name of the "war on terror", should strongly be opposed by all

Indonesia's army chief today welcomed Australian plans to resume links with an Indonesian special forces unit which has been implicated in abuses in East Timor and elsewhere.

Damien Kingsbury – The push by the Australian Government to renew its association with the Indonesian military's feared Kopassus special forces is perhaps the most doubtful proposition

Australia would do its best to ensure Kopassus troops who trained East Timor militias would not be involved in joint activities when military links were re-established, Foreign Minister

Australia's willingness to engage internationally on the war on terror has led it recently to re-engage with the military here. But the US has not been so willing.

Vannessa Hearman – The United States and Australia are moving closer to restoring full military cooperation with Indonesia, including with the discredited Kopassus special operations un

John Kerin Sian Powell – The US would not renew its ties with Indonesian special forces arm Kopassus until it resolved alleged military involvement in the unsolved murder of two US citi

Canberra – Australian Prime Minister John Howard yesterday defended a controversial plan to renew military links with Indonesia's elite Kopassus unit to help fight terror in the region

Prime Minister John Howard has defended plans for Australia's military to resume links with Indonesia's notorious Kopassus special forces troops.

Linda Mottram: Though domestic issues are resurgent with the resumption of Federal Parliamentary sittings, security remains dominant, and the matter of how best to fight terrorism in In

Australia has announced it will renew military ties with Indonesia's special forces unit, Kopassus, just four years after severing links following allegations that Kopassus had co-ordin