Reporting from Jakarta, Indonesia — The Obama administration said Thursday it would resume assistance to Indonesia’s special forces, which had been barred from receiving U.S. military aid for more ...

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(New York) - The Obama administration's decision to lift a more than decade-long ban on US military assistance to Indonesia's abusive special forces seriously undermines its commitment to promoting ...

Impunity and the ability of the well connected to flout laws and do as they like is a subject that Southeast Asian governments wish would just go away. It undermines democracy and that old chestnut ...

(New York) – The Indonesian government should conduct independent and impartial investigations into abuses by its elite special forces, Kopassus (Komando Pasukan Khusus), Human Rights Watch said in a ...

Secret documents have leaked from inside Kopassus, Indonesia’s red berets, which say that Indonesia’s US-backed security forces engage in “murder [and] abduction” and show that Kopassus targets ...

Kopassus is coming in from the cold and the debate is heating up. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is lifting a 12-year-old ban on military cooperation with Indonesia's notorious special forces.

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SEOUL, South Korea — Prabowo Subianto's path to Indonesia's presidency now appears clear. After winning his country's vote in February, he has fended off legal challenges to his election, with the top ...

Three times already this year, President Obama has put off scheduled visits to Indonesia, something the country has tried hard not to interpret as a slight. (He says he hopes to finally visit in ...