E10 UNCLASSIFIED PTQ7093 SECRET JAKART PAGE 01 04839 01 OF 03 3011202 RELEASED IN PART B l 1 4 B 1 4 D ACTION EAP-01 NP-01 FBIE-00 AC-01 PM-00 STR-00 DRL-02 LOG-00 EB-00 ADS-00 PA-00 SS-00 PRM-01 INFO AID-00 H-01 DCP-01 PRS-00 TRSE-00 G-00 ACQ-00 TEDE-00 NSAE-00 ACE-00 T-00 NFAT-00 CIAE-00 INR-00 NSCE-00 P-00 USIE-00 SAS-00 ------------------FDFF26 SRPP-0 0 I0-00 OIC-02 SP-00 PMB-00 012W DS-00 L-01 OMB-01 IRM-00 DSCC-00 3011232 38 P 301047Z SEP 99 FM AMEM3ASSY JAKARTA TO SECSTATE WASHDC EAP-PIMBS PRIORITY 0279 INFO ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS SECDEF WASHDC ISA-AP CJCS WASHDC JOINT STAFF WASHDC J51 DIA WASHDC DH-3 USCINCPAC HONOLULU HI FPA S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 03 JAKARTA 004839 E O 12958 DECL 2 05 09 TAGS PINS SUBJECT 1 U PHUM PINR MILI SECDEF CALL ON GENERAL WIRANTO CLASSIFIED BY DATT ARMA - COL JOSEPH H DAVES USA SECRET JAKART PAGE 02 REASON ID 1 5 B AND 04839 01 OF 03 30112OZ D GENERAL WIRANTO EXPLORED FAMILIAR SUMMARY S 2 THEMES IN EXPLAINING TO SECRETARY COHEN WHAT HAD THE ARMED FORCES WERE COMMITTED HAPPENED IN EAST TIMOR THE SITUATION IN EAST TO DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS BY THE MEDIA EXAGGERATED GREATLY BEEN HAD TIMOR NOW THAT THE MULTINATIONAL FORCE WAS DEPLOYED THE SITUATION WAS THE GOVERNMENT WAS COMMITTED TO PURSUE UNDER CONTROL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS HUMAN OF ALLEGATIONS UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE REVIEW AUTHORITY CLARKE N ELLIS CLASSIFICATION SECRET REASON 1 4 B 1 4 D DECLASSIFY AFTER 29 SEP 2024 DATE CASE ID 11 SEP 2008 200705435 UNCLASSIFIED B1 UNCLASSIFIED IN HIS RESPONSE SECRETARY COHEN STRESSED THE US S 3 COMMITMENT TO A STABLE PROSPEROUS AND UNITED INDONESIA HOWEVER EVENTS IN EAST TIMOR HAD MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR SUCH AN OUTCOME WITHOUT FUNDAMENTAL CORRECTIONS FROM NO AMOUNT OF ALLEGED ELECTION THE INDONESIAN SIDE IRREGULARITIES COULD JUSTIFY THE RAMPAGE OF VIOLENCE TNI SUPPORT FOR THE THAT HAD ERUPTED IN EAST TIMOR MILITIAS WAS OVERWHELMINGLY APPARENT AND TOTALLY THE MILITIAS MUST BE DISARMED THE REFUGEES UNACCEPTABLE IN WEST TIMOR MUST BE ALLOWED TO RETURN HOME IN SAFETY INTERFET MUST BE ALLOWED TO DO ITS WORK WITHOUT BEING THERE HAD TO BE A TRANSPARENT ACCOUNTABILITY HARASSED TO DEAL WITH THOSE WHO HAD COMMITTED ATROCITIES WITHOUT THESE STEPS WE WOULD BE UNABLE TO CONSIDER A END SUMMARY RESTORATION OF A NORMAL RELATIONSHIP SECRET PAGE 03 JAKART 04839 01 OF 03 3011202 SECRETARY OF DEFENSE WILLIAM COHEN CALLED ON 4 S INDONESIAN MINISTER OF DEFENSE AND ARMED FORCES ACCOMPANYING THE COMMANDER WIRANTO ON SEPTEMBER 30 SECRETARY WERE AMBASSADOR'ROY DEPUTY UNDERSECRETARY BODNER CHIEF OF STAFF TYRER SENIOR MILITARY ASSISTANT RADM JOHNSON ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR PUBLIC AND AFFAIRS BACON DAS CAMPBELL STATE EAP DAS BOYCE WITH WIRANTO WERE DEPUTY ARMED CINCPAC J-5 MG HAGEE FORCES COMMANDER ADMIRAL WIDODO CHIEF OF STAFF FOR TERRITORIAL AFFAIRS LTG BAMBANG YUDHOYONO FOREIGN AFFAIRS ADVISER MG ALBERT PARUNTU AND ARMED FORCES SPOKESMAN MG SUDRAJAT WIRANTO BEGAN BY WELCOMING THE SECRETARY TO S 5 THE VISIT CAME AT THE RIGHT TIME WITH THE MPR INDONESIA SET TO MEET THE NEXT DAY TO DO THREE THINGS A DECIDE THE FOR MY NATION B SELECT THE PRESIDENT AND GUIDELINES THE VICE PRESIDENT AND C DECIDE THE FUTURE OF EAST TIMOR MILITARY WOULD HAVE 38 SEATS IN THE MPR AND WANTED TO CONTRIBUTE TO THESE IMPORTANT DECISIONS SECRET UNCLASSIFIED B1 UNCLASSIFIED 04839 01 OF 03 301120Z JAKART PAGE 04 POLITICAL LEADERS AGREED WITH HIM AND THUS HAD JOINED HIM IN ANNOUNCING THAT THE MPR PROCESS MUST BE PEACEFUL TURNING TO EAST TIMOR WIRANTO INDICATED THAT HE 6 S WOULD USE AN INTERPRETER B1 SECRET SECRET PAGE 01 ACTION EAP-01 INFO LOG-00 EB-00 ADS-00 PA-00 SS-00 PRM-01 JAKART 04839 02 OF 03 PTQ7096 3011202 AID-00 ACQ-00 CIAE-00 SRPP-00 NP-01 TEDE-00 INR-00 I0-00 FBIE-00 H-01 DCP-01 NSAE-00 NSCE-00 OIC-02 AC-01 PRS-00 ACE-00 P-00 SP-00 PM-00 TRSE-00 T-00 USIE-00 PMB-00 STR-00 SAS-00 012W G-00 NFAT-00 DRL-02 ------------------FDFF3E 301123Z 38 P 301047Z SEP 99 FM AMEMBASSY JAKARTA TO SECSTATE WASHDC EAP-PIMBS PRIORITY 0280 INFO ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS SECDEF WASHDC ISA-AP CJCS WASHDC JOINT STAFF WASHDC J51 DIA WASHDC DH-3 UNCLASSIFIED DS-00 L-01 OMB-01 IRM-00 DSCC-00 UNCLASSIFIED US'CINCPAC HONOLULU HI FPA S E C R E T SECTION 02 OF 03 JAKARTA 004839 E O 12958 DECL 2 05 09 TAGS PINS SUBJECT PHUM PINR MILI ID SECDEF CALL ON GENERAL WIRANTO B1 SECRET PAGE 02 JAKART 04839 02 OF 03 301120Z MEANWHILE INDONESIA HAD RECEIVED THE VISIT OF THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL TEAM AND WIRANTO HIMSELF HAD HEARD FROM GENERALS SHELTON AND INDONESIA APPRECIATED RALSTON AS WELL AS ADMIRAL BLAIR ALL THEIR SUGGESTIONS AND WAS PLEASED THAT THE UN TEAM AS A HAD BEEN ABLE TO SEE THE REAL SITUATION IN EAST TIMOR INVITED IN HAD BEEN FORCE MULTINATIONAL RESULT THE WIRANTO SAID HE WAS PLEASED TO INFORM SECRETARY S 7 COHEN THAT THREE DAYS EARLIER TNI HAD TRANSFERRED AUTHORITY IN EAST TIMOR TO INTERFET IN A PROFESSIONAL AND OPERATIONALLY TNI WAS STILL SUPPORTING HONORABLE WAY INTERFET THROUGH A TASK FORCE THAT HAD BEEN INCLUDED IN THE JOINT SECURITY COORDINATION GROUP TNI WOULD BE DELIGHTED REGARDING HUMAN SOON HOME WERE TO GO F THE REFUGEES THAT TNI HAD SECRETARY RIGHTS WIRANTO TOLD THE IMPLEMENTED NEW PARADIGMS RESPECTING HUMAN RIGHTS WIRANTO SAID HE WOULD NOT DENY THAT ON AND DEMOCRACY THE GROUND A NUMBER OF TNI PERSONNEL HAD ENGAGED IN THE VIOLENCE HOWEVER THAT WAS NOT TNI POLICY ABUSES HAD NOT BEEN COORDINATED CREATED ENGINEERED OR THUS WIRANTO APPROVED OF THE NEW ASSISTED BY TNI INDEPENDENT COMMISSION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WHICH WOULD BE SECRET PAGE 03 JAKART 04839 02 OF 03 301120Z COORDINATED BY THE EXISTING NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE THE EVIDENCE AND THE TRUTH ON BY ESTABLISHING SUCH A THE GROUND IN EAST TIMOR UNCLASSIFIED B1 B1 UNCLASSIFIED COMMISSION IT WOULD PROVE THAT TNI WAS COMMITTED TO HUMAN RIGHTS VALUES AS WELL AS CLARIFY THE INFORMATION ON HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN EAST TIMOR B1 SECRETARY COHEN BEGAN BY TELLING WIRANTO THAT TIME S 8 HE WAS LIMITED AND THUS HE WOULD HAVE TO BE QUITE DIRECT VALUED THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK CANDIDLY WITH GENERAL FIRST THE SECRETARY SAID IT WAS IMPORTANT TO WIRANTO STRESS THAT THE UNITED STATES WANTED A SUCCESSFUL TRANSITION TO A STABLE PROSPEROUS AND UNITED INDONESIA WE HAD NO INTEREST IN FRAGMENTATION OR IN ANY ACTIVITIES WE ALSO THAT WOULD BE DISRUPTIVE TO THIS PROCESS RECOGNIZED THAT IN RECENT MONTHS TNI HAD DONE SOME POSITIVE THINGS SUCH AS DISENGAGING POLITICALLY SEPARATING THE POLICE FROM THE ARMED FORCES AND HOWEVER ALL OF REMAINING NEUTRAL IN THE JUNE ELECTIONS THIS HAD NOW BEEN OVERSHADOWED BY EVENTS IN EAST TIMOR GENERAL WIRANTO HAD INDICATED THAT SOME PEOPLE MIGHT HAVE BEEN DISSATISFIED BY THE RESULTS OF THE POLLS BUT THAT COULD NEVER JUSTIFY THE RAMPAGE WHICH HAD IT WAS WIDELY BELIEVED THAT THE MILITARY WAS FOLLOWED BEHIND THE MILITIAS EITHER ACTIVELY PARTICIPATING IN THE VIOLENCE OR PASSIVELY INDIFFERENT TO THE ATROCITIES BEING WIRANTO HAD COMMITTED AGAINST HELPLESS CIVILIANS SECRET PAGE 04 JAKART 04839 02 OF 03 301120Z MENTIONED THE NEW HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION BUT IT REMAINED TO BE SEEN WHETHER THOSE IN TNI WHO HAD AIDED AND ABETTED THE MILITIAS WOULD IN FACT BE HELD IN EAST TIMOR THERE HAD BEEN GREAT ACCOUNTABLE REFUGEES WERE RETURNING TO FIND THEIR DEVASTATION THERE WAS NO INFRASTRUCTURE LEFT TO -HOMES DESTROYED THE RAINY SEASON HEALTH PROBLEMS ABOUNDED SPEAK OF THERE COULD SHORT MONTHS JUST A FEW WAS APPROACHING IN LOOMING WIRANTO BE A MAJOR HUMANITARIAN DISASTER NODDED IN ASSENT CONTINUING SECRETARY COHEN SAID THE MULTINATIONAL S 9 FORCE WAS NOW IN PLACE AND WAS ACTIVELY WORKING TO EVERYONE WAS CONCERNED WITH THE STABILIZE THE SITUATION IT WAS CRUCIAL FOR PLIGHT OF THE REFUGEES IN WEST TIMOR SAFELY HOME THEM RETURN TNI TO HELP SECRETARY COHEN SAID HE WAS ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT INDICATIONS THAT THE MILITIAS IN WEST TIMOR WERE UNCLASSIFIED B1 UNCLASSIFIED CCSNSIDERING WAYS IN WHICH THEY MIGHT BE ABLE TO THREATEN INTERFET SUCH ACTIONS WOULD BE TRAGIC IF THEY WERE ALLOWED IT WAS IMPERATIVE THAT WIRANTO SHOW LEADERSHIP ANY TNI ELEMENTS INVOLVED IN IN PREVENTING SUCH ACTIONS SUCH REPORTS SHOULD BE DEALT WITH HARSHLY SECRET SECRET 04839 PTQ7094 PAGE 01 ACTION EAP-01 JAKART 03 OF 03 301121Z INFO LOG-00 EB-00 ADS-00 NP-01 FBIE-00 AC-01 AID-00 H-01 NSAE-00 ACQ-00 TEDE-00 NSCE-00 CIAE-00 INR-00 OIC-02 PM-00 STR-00 DRL-02 PRS-00 TRSE-00 G-00 ACE-00 T-00 NFAT-00 P-00 USIE-00 SAS-00 SP-00 PMB-00 011W ------------------FDFF2D SRPP-00 I0-00 OMB-01 IRM-00 DSCC-00 DS-00 L-01 PA-00 SS-00 PRM-01 301123Z 38 P 301047Z SEP 99 FM AMEM3ASSY JAKARTA TO SECSTATE WASHDC EAP-PIMBS PRIORITY 0281 INFO ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS SECDEF WASHDC ISA-AP CJCS WASHDC JOINT STAFF WASHDC J51 D'IA WASHDC DH-3 USCINCPAC HONOLULU HI FPA S E C R E T SECTION 03 OF 03 JAKARTA 004839 E O 12958 DECL 2 05 09 TAGS PINS SUBJECT PHUM PINR MILI ID SECDEF CALL ON GENERAL WIRANTO B1 UNCLASSIFIED B1 SECRETARY COHEN SAID HE CAME TO INDONESIA TO S 11 THE WORLD CONVEY THESE POINTS TO WIRANTO PERSONALLY IT WAS IMPORTANT TO ESTABLISH THE WAS WATCHING THE SECRETARY NOTED CREDIBILITY OF THE GOVERNMENT RECENT PRESS REPORTS ABOUT AUSTRALIA BEING THE DEPUTY SUCH REPORTS WERE TO THE UNITED STATES IN THE REGION IT WAS IN BOTH OUR INTERESTS TO HAVE A POSITIVE WRONG BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP BUT THIS WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE IT WAS WITHOUT PROGRESS IN ALL THE AREAS HE HAD OUTLINED AS GENERAL WIRANTO HAD NOTED AN IMPORTANT TIME TO BE IN THERE WERE MANY IMPORTANT ISSUES BEING INDONESIA EAST TIMOR HAD ALREADY BEEN DECIDED HOWEVER DECIDED THE DECISION TO HAVE A REFERENDUM HAD BEEN CARRIED OUT SECRET PAGE 03 JAKART 04839 03 OF 03 3011212 Bl Bl UNCLASSIFIED T INC A SSTETED 13 S PAGE 04 THE MEETING ENDED AFTER ABOUT FIFTY MINUTES AFTER SECRET JAKART 04839 03 OF 03 301121Z WHICH THE SECRETARY AND WIRANTO DEPARTED FOR THE PALACE TO MEET PRESIDENT HABIBIE SECRET END OF DOCUMENT UNCLASSIFIED Bl This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 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