State Department Announces Policy Change for Arms Exports to Indonesia
April 2006
In the March 29, 2006 Federal Register the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) in the State Department officially announced its new policy for approving exports to Indonesia. DDTC now will consider requests to export lethal defense articles on a case-by-case basis, which is a return to a more or less regular licensing policy for Indonesia.
As early as 1999 the State Department implemented a policy to deny most exports of defense articles to Indonesia. Over the last seven years State has implemented incremental relaxations to its policy. The March 29 Federal Register notice gives a brief history of those changes (http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fedreg/a060329c.html).
