Alvin Darlanika Soedarjo, Jakarta – Rights group Imparsial asked the government Sunday to create a defense blueprint so as to clarify its defense policies.

"A defense blueprint, a step-by-step plan for the next 10 to 15 years, is imperative. The government can prioritize submitting defense-related draft laws based on the blueprint," Imparsial's research coordinator, Al Araf, told The Jakarta Post.

He said that based on the blueprint, the government could then evaluate whether the Indonesian Military (TNI) had improved its performance over the past several years.

"There are just so many draft laws that the Defense Ministry has to deal with, while the 2004 Military Law, which regulates among other things on the termination of the military's involvement in business, has yet to be imposed.

"The draft laws on national security and military tribunals are not yet completed, but they are now drafting laws on the revival of the military's territorial command and militia deployment. Are they capable of working on the draft laws at the same time?" asked Al Araf.

Defense research institute Propatria's executive director, Hari Prihartono, said the piling up of draft military laws was a consequence of choosing reforms over revolution.

He said the blueprint should be created at the executive level with the help of post-New Order regime presidents.

"What many people perceive as a blueprint for defense policy, nowadays, is actually only the promises of (incumbent) presidents' during election campaigns," Hari said.

Meanwhile, political analyst Ikrar Nusa Bakti of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences said the Defense Ministry had already passed the defense blueprint on to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

"The President has not signed it yet. That's why many people are asking about its existence," he said.

Ikrar said he had read the blueprint, the overall content of which according to him was satisfactory. "One aspect I did not agree with was on the limit of intelligence's role in the sea."