INDONESIA SUPPORTS DRAFT UNGA RESOLUTION

UNCLAS JAKARTA 002756 SIPDIS SENSITIVE SIPDIS DEPARTMENT FOR EAP, EAP/MTS, IO, IO/RHS (LUM) E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PGOV PHUM KWMN UNGA ID SUBJECT: INDONESIA SUPPORTS DRAFT UNGA RESOLUTION CONDEMNING RAPE REF: STATE 135255 ¶1. (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. ¶2. (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Diana Emilla, Deputy Director for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU),underscoring that Indonesia--as East Asia's largest democracy and a key player in ASEAN--should support the draft resolution condemning rape as an instrument of state policy. Poloff also urged Indonesia to cosponsor the resolution. ¶3. (SBU) Emilla responded that Indonesia supported the draft resolution, but the GOI had not yet decided whether it would be a cosponsor. She promised to inform Mission if Indonesia decided to cosponsor the resolution, but thought that the decision to do so or not would be made in New York as the senior GOI officials responsible for this type of issue were already there for UN meetings. HEFFERN