Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07JAKARTA388
2007-02-13 07:27:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Jakarta
Cable title:  

DEMARCHE FOLLOW-UP: INDONESIAN PURCHASES OF

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DE RUEHJA #0388 0440727
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P 130727Z FEB 07
FM AMEMBASSY JAKARTA
TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 3264
C O N F I D E N T I A L JAKARTA 000388 

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

FOR ISN/CATR WONG

E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/13/2017
TAGS: PREL PARM ETTC ID
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE FOLLOW-UP: INDONESIAN PURCHASES OF
CONVENTIONAL ARMS FROM IRAN

REF: A. JAKARTA 00281


B. STATE 10879

Classified By: Political Officer Daniel E. Turnbull, for reasons 1.4 (b
,d).

C O N F I D E N T I A L JAKARTA 000388

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

FOR ISN/CATR WONG

E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/13/2017
TAGS: PREL PARM ETTC ID
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE FOLLOW-UP: INDONESIAN PURCHASES OF
CONVENTIONAL ARMS FROM IRAN

REF: A. JAKARTA 00281


B. STATE 10879

Classified By: Political Officer Daniel E. Turnbull, for reasons 1.4 (b
,d).


1. (C) We called again on our contact in the Directorate for
International Security and Disarmament at the Indonesian
Department of Foreign Affairs on February 12 to inquire about
any results of the GOI's investigation of the possible
conventional arms purchases reported ref b. We emphasized
that, although the primary purpose of such demarches was to
alert the host government to transfers of concern, we were
very interested in knowing the results of the host
government's investigation.


2. (C) Ramadansyah Hasan said that, in response to our
demarche, he had sent a memorandum to the Department of
Defense (DEPHAN) requesting an investigation of the possible
purchases, that he had not heard back yet from DEPHAN, but
that he would share whatever information he could once he had
heard from DEPHAN. He noted, however, that while indonesia
was sensitive to U.S. concerns, neither Indonesia nor Iran
were signatories to the Wassenaar Arrangement and that
purchases of arms from Iran by Indonesia therefore were not
illegal according to Indonesian law. He also said DEPHAN had
a list of approved agents for arms purchases, and DEPHAN
would check, inter alia, whether the companies listed in the
demarche were legitimate middlemen.
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