Soldiers from Australia's elite SAS are conducting a counter-terrorism exercise in Bali today with Indonesia's controversial special forces unit, Kopassus. The exercise is modelled on a Mumbai-style ...

Indonesia's National Human Rights Commission has criticised Australian training for the controversial special forces unit, Kopassus. Soldiers from Australia's SAS and Kopassus are wrapping up ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Australian Government has refused to allow the commander of Indonesia's Kopassus special forces to accompany his officers for ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. INDONESIA threatened to derail a visit to Jakarta by President Barack Obama earlier this year unless he overturned the US ban on ...

July 23 - More than 50 U.S. organizations today urged the U.S. government to "strictly prohibit any U.S. cooperation with or assistance to the Indonesian Special Forces (Kopassus)' in a letter sent ...

he recent announcement by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates that the US will begin “a gradual, limited program of security cooperation activities” with the Indonesian Army’s Special Forces (Kopassus) ...

(New York) - The US government should train members of Indonesia's elite special forces only if Indonesia takes sufficient steps toward accountability and reform to deter future abuses, Human Rights ...

Thu, July 29, 2010 Published on Jul. 29, 2010 Published on 2010-07-29T09:47:10+07:00 uring his visit to Indonesia, US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates announced Thursday (July 22) that the US ...

The Australian government has come under fire for its decision to resume training links between its military and Indonesia's notorious Kopassus special forces. The Prime Minister, John Howard, said ...

But defence won't say when, where or how many troops from each side will take part. "No specific information on this type of training activity will be released due to operational security reasons," a ...

The United States overturned a ban on training the Indonesian Kopassus army special forces—despite their long history of arbitrary detention, torture and murder—after Indonesian President Susilo ...