Soldiers from Australia's elite SAS are conducting a counter-terrorism exercise in Bali today with Indonesia's controversial special forces unit, Kopassus. The exercise is modelled on a Mumbai-style ...

Indonesia's National Human Rights Commission has criticised Australian training for the controversial special forces unit, Kopassus. Soldiers from Australia's SAS and Kopassus are wrapping up ...

INDONESIA threatened to derail a visit to Jakarta by President Barack Obama earlier this year unless he overturned the US ban on training the controversial Kopassus army special forces. Leaked US ...

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The United States overturned a ban on training the Indonesian Kopassus army special forces—despite their long history of arbitrary detention, torture and murder—after Indonesian President Susilo ...

The Australian Government has refused to allow the commander of Indonesia's Kopassus special forces to accompany his officers for anti-terrorism talks in Perth in a move that threatens the ...

July 23 - More than 50 U.S. organizations today urged the U.S. government to "strictly prohibit any U.S. cooperation with or assistance to the Indonesian Special Forces (Kopassus)' in a letter sent ...

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The Australian government has come under fire for its decision to resume training links between its military and Indonesia's notorious Kopassus special forces. The Prime Minister, John Howard, said ...