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US lifts ban on Indonesian arms

WHOSE INTERESTS?A six-year US arms embargo against Indonesia was lifted on Tuesday, drawing flak from critics who say the last thing the military needs is more weapons

AP AND AFP , JAKARTA

The underfunded military has long been accused of human-rights violations in the course of putting down separatist insurgencies in far-flung regions of the sprawling and at times mostly inaccessible archipelago.

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