Is the U.S. going ahead with the International Military Education & Training (IMET) program in Indonesia?
We have just restored IMET, an effort we’ve been making for the last year and a half. Because I have the view that if you’re concerned about human-rights [violations] by the military…you expose rising military officers to the ways in which militaries controlled by civilians in democracies behave. IMET is going to be programmed in a way that’s appropriate to Indonesia. It’s not going to be sniper training, combat training, that sort of thing. It’s going to be the kind of courses that deal with transparency in budgeting, looking at coalition situations, basic issues of implementation and logistics.
