Once again the United States Government said last July 22, Thursday that they will reunite and resume their ties with special forces after the 12-year untied communications to the republic of Indonesia due to unsolicited issue of human rights violence in some neighbor countries. The United States government has finally made an effort to Indonesia as one of the world’s largest Muslim nation.
Reported news has talked about Indonesia about their growing military unit Kopassus allegedly claiming a controversy in human rights abuses, including East Timor, and Aceh under the then-dictator Suharto in the 1990s. According to the report last year by the US-based Human Rights Watch, the organization accused the elite unit for an on going abuse in the respective province of Papua such as unwarranted arrests, beatings, and other mistreatment like the brutality against ordinary Papuans.
Due to that reported incidence, the US government decided to suspend their ties in 1998. But soon, after 12 years, the US made an effort in expanding their missions to Indonesian Army Special Forces after taking an initial step in the continuation of implementing the reform of slashing or reducing the human rights violence. According to the US Defense Secretary Robert Gates to Indonesia, the decision came as a result of the military reforms of Indonesian people over the past decade, and also the recent actions taken by the Ministry of Defense addressing the human rights issues.
