Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09JAKARTA813
2009-05-08 09:09:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Jakarta
Cable title:
BURMA -- URGING THE GOI TO PRESS FOR AUNG SAN SUU
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TAGS: PREL PGOV ID BM
SUBJECT: BURMA -- URGING THE GOI TO PRESS FOR AUNG SAN SUU
KYI'S RELEASE
REF: STATE 33547
Classified By: Pol/C Joseph L. Novak, reasons 1.4(b+d).
C O N F I D E N T I A L JAKARTA 000813
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR EAP, EAP/MTS, EAP/MLS(L.SCHEIBE),EAP/RSP
NSC FOR E.PHU
E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/08/2019
TAGS: PREL PGOV ID BM
SUBJECT: BURMA -- URGING THE GOI TO PRESS FOR AUNG SAN SUU
KYI'S RELEASE
REF: STATE 33547
Classified By: Pol/C Joseph L. Novak, reasons 1.4(b+d).
1. (C) SUMMARY: Mission has urged the GOI to press the
Burmese authorities to release Aung San Suu Kyi from
detention. Contacts underscored that Indonesia had pressed
the Burmese regime to do this on multiple occasions, adding
that they would look for ways to raise it again before the
end of May (the date by which the Burmese authorities seem
set to renew her detention for another year). END SUMMARY.
2. (SBU) Per reftel, Mission urged the Indonesian government
to press the Burmese authorities to release Aung San Suu Kyi
from detention. In May 8 discussions with Presidential
Palace and Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) contacts,
Pol/C and poloff underscored that the detention was
completely unjust and, even under the Burmese system,
unlawful. We underscored that Rangoon's decision to release
Aung San Suu Kyi would be greeted as a positive signal of
change by the international community. We urged Indonesia,
as an influential Southeast Asian neighbor of Burma's, to
again urge the regime to release the detained political
leader.
3. (SBU) Pol/C noted that the USG was reviewing its Burma
policy with a renewed focus on how best to promote respect
for human rights and the rule of law in Burma.
4. (C) Our contacts told us that the GOI was committed to
pressing Burma on this. Astari Daenuwy, an international
affairs advisor to the President, told Pol/C that President
Yudhoyono believed unequivocally that Aung San Suu Kyi should
be released and that he considered her to be "one of the
notable leaders of Southeast Asia." Indonesia had raised the
matter with the Myanmar authorities on multiple occasions,
but to no avail. The GOI would look to find a way this month
to do so again. Daenuwy added that the GOI would appreciate
a briefing on the USG policy review when it was concluded.
5. (U) Poloff made similar points to Cicilia Rusdiharini of
DEPLU's Americas Desk.
HUME
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR EAP, EAP/MTS, EAP/MLS(L.SCHEIBE),EAP/RSP
NSC FOR E.PHU
E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/08/2019
TAGS: PREL PGOV ID BM
SUBJECT: BURMA -- URGING THE GOI TO PRESS FOR AUNG SAN SUU
KYI'S RELEASE
REF: STATE 33547
Classified By: Pol/C Joseph L. Novak, reasons 1.4(b+d).
1. (C) SUMMARY: Mission has urged the GOI to press the
Burmese authorities to release Aung San Suu Kyi from
detention. Contacts underscored that Indonesia had pressed
the Burmese regime to do this on multiple occasions, adding
that they would look for ways to raise it again before the
end of May (the date by which the Burmese authorities seem
set to renew her detention for another year). END SUMMARY.
2. (SBU) Per reftel, Mission urged the Indonesian government
to press the Burmese authorities to release Aung San Suu Kyi
from detention. In May 8 discussions with Presidential
Palace and Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) contacts,
Pol/C and poloff underscored that the detention was
completely unjust and, even under the Burmese system,
unlawful. We underscored that Rangoon's decision to release
Aung San Suu Kyi would be greeted as a positive signal of
change by the international community. We urged Indonesia,
as an influential Southeast Asian neighbor of Burma's, to
again urge the regime to release the detained political
leader.
3. (SBU) Pol/C noted that the USG was reviewing its Burma
policy with a renewed focus on how best to promote respect
for human rights and the rule of law in Burma.
4. (C) Our contacts told us that the GOI was committed to
pressing Burma on this. Astari Daenuwy, an international
affairs advisor to the President, told Pol/C that President
Yudhoyono believed unequivocally that Aung San Suu Kyi should
be released and that he considered her to be "one of the
notable leaders of Southeast Asia." Indonesia had raised the
matter with the Myanmar authorities on multiple occasions,
but to no avail. The GOI would look to find a way this month
to do so again. Daenuwy added that the GOI would appreciate
a briefing on the USG policy review when it was concluded.
5. (U) Poloff made similar points to Cicilia Rusdiharini of
DEPLU's Americas Desk.
HUME