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Indonesia can once again take part in a top Pentagon military education and training program, U.S. and Indonesian officials said this week. Citing human rights abuses, the U.S. stopped training the Indonesian military 13 years ago. The U.S. ended all military ties in 1999, after government-backed militias committed atrocities in East Timor. But since 9/11, relations have warmed, and the U.S. has been giving Indonesian soldiers counterterrorism training. The State Department said that Indonesia now deserves full military ties because Indonesia had been cooperating with an investigation into the 2002 deaths of two American teachers. Human rights activists in Indonesia disagreed, saying the army had not fully confronted its past abuses.
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