Matori Abdul Djalil: "Military aid is welcome, foreign troops, no way"

US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld last week asked Congress to lift the American military embargo on Indonesia, an embargo slapped by the US government in September 1999 following the violence in post-referendum East Timor in August the same year.

The American embargo seriously curtailed Indonesia's military capability. Indonesia, a nation whose territory extends over a distance equal to that from Tokyo to London, suddenly found itself in

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