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By Nancy-Amelia Collins
Jakarta
21 June 2006
 


Indonesian Army soldiers watch from their armored vehicles during a security preparation in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, May 8, 2006  
  
A new report by a human-rights group says the Indonesian military's business operations put human rights in the country at risk.


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The report by Human Rights Watch, a New York group, says the Indonesian military's involvement in business ventures fuels human-rights abuses in the country and leaves the military beyond government control.


Human Rights Watch Asian Division Executive Director Brad Adams says the military, known as the TNI, businesses are harming the government's efforts to reform and professionalize the institution.


"Our report documents how the military continues to commit human-rights abuses in the name of making money. This is not surprising," he said. "In fact, in our discussions with the Ministry 1 of Defense 2 and the TNI, no one has disputed this central finding, that military financing as it currently exists does lead to human rights abuses."


The Indonesian military has long raised money outside the government budget. Many Indonesian and international-rights groups have said the military's business networks include illegal ventures such as protection rackets, mining, logging, and extortion. These are areas where abuses of civilians 3 are likely.


The government passed a law in 2004 requiring the military to withdraw from all business by 2009, but have not yet adopted regulations on how the government will take over legal businesses.


In March, the military declared that it owned more than 15-hundred businesses, many of them collapsing 4 after years of mismanagement.


The military says its budget is too low and meets only about half its needs. Military leaders also deny most allegations of human-rights abuses by troops and say they are working to halt corruption 5 in the ranks.


Human Rights Watch agrees the defense budget is low. But the group says the problem is not as severe as the military often states, because the military draws funds from other government accounts, but not in a transparent 6 manner.


The main researcher and author of the report, Lisa Misol, says the people of Indonesia pay a price for the military's activities - because troops often use violence and intimidation 7 to protect the military's business interests. She called on the government to enforce the 2004 law.


"We call on the Indonesian government to take a serious look and to address this question full square and eliminate the exceptions and enforce the ban, address the defense budgeting in a transparent and accountable way, and stop military business once and for all," said Misol.


The report says the government must agree on an appropriate defense budget that is strictly monitored and reported accurately



n.(政府的)部;牧师
  • They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
  • We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓
  • the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
  • At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后,至少有300名平民下落不明。
压扁[平],毁坏,断裂
  • Rescuers used props to stop the roof of the tunnel collapsing. 救援人员用支柱防止隧道顶塌陷。
  • The rocks were folded by collapsing into the center of the trough. 岩石由于坍陷进入凹槽的中心而发生褶皱。
n.腐败,堕落,贪污
  • The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
  • The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
adj.明显的,无疑的;透明的
  • The water is so transparent that we can see the fishes swimming.水清澈透明,可以看到鱼儿游来游去。
  • The window glass is transparent.窗玻璃是透明的。
n.恐吓,威胁
  • The Opposition alleged voter intimidation by the army.反对党声称投票者受到军方的恐吓。
  • The gang silenced witnesses by intimidation.恶帮用恐吓的手段使得证人不敢说话。
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amylmercuric iodide
anamirta cocculus
apparitionists
bank sloughing
banner exchange
be burned out
be itching for
birational morphism
boardsource
bordeaux arsenites
bostan
bourgeois consitution
Brandt's method
bye-lines
calinaga buddha formosana
car-following control
chief radio officer
climbing rope
club cells
collaborative agent
computed price
contemporary tracks
coupon sheet
cross country power
curmudgeonliest
dasyprocta agutis
de niroes
disheveled
emuwa
Excluded Commodity
family raphidiidaes
Fermi velocity
Fetisovo
frishberg
front-to-back effect
gallonis
Gelidiales
gree
hardening by isothermal heat treatment
has acquaintance with
Hodgen's method
immune to all plead
isothermal weight-change determination
Jüchen
left shunt
lights-out server room
linear programming file generator
load member
manure salts
mediaevalist
mikhaylov
mission data reduction
multiple film
ocidizer
oligoaerobic
option dealer
outoftone
ovarian myxoma
partitioned segmentation
peed-a-boo system
phase-advance network
philonotis falcate
Piasmodium falciparum quotidianum
piece wood
PK nail
pligs
pneumato-hydrothermal deposit
pointcloud
Poldnevitsa
polyhomeostatic
possible precipitation
purple-flowered
quadrilingual
resultado
rhythm guitar
rountree
Rumanian
Saenger's maculae
satellite relay station
second-order model
segment of the economy
service walkway
shar-peis
sharing criteria
shikai
slipperly
Sonnar lens
state fund
steel pointed marline spike
straw fiber
tacticians
theodolite drag
thereza
tobacco combine
toyle
transfer data
umina
uridyltransferase
wild-oat grader
woed
yassky
yearly load factor