Reporting from Jakarta, Indonesia — The Obama administration said Thursday it would resume assistance to Indonesia’s special forces, which had been barred from receiving U.S. military aid for more ...

Impunity and the ability of the well connected to flout laws and do as they like is a subject that Southeast Asian governments wish would just go away. It undermines democracy and that old chestnut ...

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 ...

(New York) – The Indonesian government should conduct independent and impartial investigations into abuses by its elite special forces, Kopassus (Komando Pasukan Khusus), Human Rights Watch said in a ...

Secret documents have leaked from inside Kopassus, Indonesia’s red berets, which say that Indonesia’s US-backed security forces engage in “murder [and] abduction” and show that Kopassus targets ...

Kopassus is coming in from the cold and the debate is heating up. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is lifting a 12-year-old ban on military cooperation with Indonesia's notorious special forces.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. ELIZABETH JACKSON: Ten years ago Prabowo Subianto was the disgraced former head of Kopassus, ...

SEOUL, South Korea — Prabowo Subianto's path to Indonesia's presidency now appears clear. After winning his country's vote in February, he has fended off legal challenges to his election, with the top ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis was seen laughing and smiling this week as he watched a military exercise in Jakarta in which Indonesian troops drank snake blood, rolled in glass, broke bricks with ...