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08JAKARTA293
2008-02-13 08:59:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Jakarta
Cable title:  

KOSOVO -- SEEKING INDONESIAN RECOGNITION

Tags:  PREL PGOV UNMIK ID YI KV 
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C O N F I D E N T I A L JAKARTA 000293 

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

DEPARTMENT FOR EAP, EAP/MTS, EAP/MLS, EUR, EUR/SCE
(SHIRATORI)
NSC FOR E.PHU

E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/13/2018
TAGS: PREL PGOV UNMIK ID YI KV
SUBJECT: KOSOVO -- SEEKING INDONESIAN RECOGNITION

REF: STATE 14626

Classified By: Charge d'Affaires John A. Heffern, reasons 1.4 (b+d).

C O N F I D E N T I A L JAKARTA 000293

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

DEPARTMENT FOR EAP, EAP/MTS, EAP/MLS, EUR, EUR/SCE
(SHIRATORI)
NSC FOR E.PHU

E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/13/2018
TAGS: PREL PGOV UNMIK ID YI KV
SUBJECT: KOSOVO -- SEEKING INDONESIAN RECOGNITION

REF: STATE 14626

Classified By: Charge d'Affaires John A. Heffern, reasons 1.4 (b+d).


1. (C) SUMMARY: A senior GOI official told the Charge on
February 13 that it would be very difficult for Indonesia to
recognize Kosovo anytime soon. He left open the possibility
that Indonesia might extend recognition after enough other
countries had done so. END SUMMARY.


2. (C) URGING INDONESIAN RECOGNITION: Charge delivered
reftel demarche to Secretary General Imron Cotan, the
number-two official in the Department of Foreign Affairs
(DEPLU),and urged Indonesia to recognize Kosovo's upcoming
declaration of independence. Charge underscored that the
independence of Kosovo was the last step in the long process
of Yugoslavia's break-up. He stressed that attempts to reach
a negotiated settlement had run their course and that
international recognition of Kosovo's independence was the
best way to ensure peace and security in the region. Charge
also emphasized that the recognition of Kosovo's independence
did not set any sort of precedent.


3. (C) GOI IN A TOUGH SPOT: Cotan responded that Indonesia
had not yet made a decision re recognizing Kosovo but said
that a unilateral declaration of independence would put his
country in a very difficult position. He explained that
Indonesia had faced secessionist movements, particularly in
Aceh and Papua. Many in Indonesia would see recognition of
Kosovo's independence as opening the door to secessionist
forces within Indonesian borders, according to Cotan.


4. (C) PERHAPS EVENTUALLY: Charge stressed that most EU
states would join the United States in recognizing Kosovo and
noted that Indonesia had already recognized the other
successor states of the former Yugoslavia without creating an
evident precedent or spawning domestic secessionist movements
in Indonesia. Cotan said that the lack of a P-5 consensus,
and particularly the intransigence of Russia and China, made
it more difficult for Indonesia to offer early recognition of
Kosovo. He conceded, however, that as more countries
recognized Kosovo, Indonesia might find it possible to slip
quietly in among the pack.

HEFFERN