DEFENSE Minister Juwono Sudarsono was on a mission impossible that cold wintry week in Washington, DC, on March 12-19, when temperatures hit close to zero degrees Celsius. His objective was to thaw military relations between Indonesia and the United States.

The US had halted its International Military Education and Training (IMET) program to Indonesia since 1992. It was in reaction to their assessment of the TNIs (Indonesian Military) excessive