Wednesday, 20Sep06
Highlights: long day of class again… drive up the mountains to Puncak with TNI LtCol Daru for dinner & mosque visit.
Day 3 of our MTT (mobile training team) week.
It’s always an interesting opportunity, coming to teach, learn & listen to strategies for overcoming security issues with foreign militaries. Sometimes you don’t know exactly where the sensitive issues lie until you step on them.
For example, we were talking about law enforcement techniques for organizing evidence & clues in ways that are useful for tracking down terrorist abroad. To highlight the point, our speaker used the capture of Saddam Hussein as an example. Well that launched an impromptu question-answer session which nearly descended into quicksand debate.
To be fair, out of a class of 40 TNI officers, 2 seemed more impassioned over the example. The issue was why America devoted so many resources to Iraq (a country that didn’t attack us on 9/11), and so few (by comparison) to Afghanistan, to track down Osama Bin Laden (who had attacked us on 9/11). Good question. The answers lie far above my paycheck.
Another interesting issue today circled around legal system limitations. Indonesian law prohibits the military from engaging in domestic security issues. Law enforcement (Police) has jurisdiction over internal security (not unlike the U.S.) but there is significantly less inter-agency interaction here than in the states- and many of the techniques we were talking about- the TNI can’t employ directly. So what was the purpose of us standing here blowing air about this & that again?
Building relationships. And beyond that, it’s always beneficial for them to know how business is done in other parts of the world, so that they can compare how they do things with how we do things- and hopefully employ the most effective techniques from both.
Highlights: long day of class again… drive up the mountains to Puncak with TNI LtCol Daru for dinner & mosque visit.
Day 3 of our MTT (mobile training team) week.
It’s always an interesting opportunity, coming to teach, learn & listen to strategies for overcoming security issues with foreign militaries. Sometimes you don’t know exactly where the sensitive issues lie until you step on them.
For example, we were talking about law enforcement techniques for organizing evidence & clues in ways that are useful for tracking down terrorist abroad. To highlight the point, our speaker used the capture of Saddam Hussein as an example. Well that launched an impromptu question-answer session which nearly descended into quicksand debate.
To be fair, out of a class of 40 TNI officers, 2 seemed more impassioned over the example. The issue was why America devoted so many resources to Iraq (a country that didn’t attack us on 9/11), and so few (by comparison) to Afghanistan, to track down Osama Bin Laden (who had attacked us on 9/11). Good question. The answers lie far above my paycheck.
Another interesting issue today circled around legal system limitations. Indonesian law prohibits the military from engaging in domestic security issues. Law enforcement (Police) has jurisdiction over internal security (not unlike the U.S.) but there is significantly less inter-agency interaction here than in the states- and many of the techniques we were talking about- the TNI can’t employ directly. So what was the purpose of us standing here blowing air about this & that again?
Building relationships. And beyond that, it’s always beneficial for them to know how business is done in other parts of the world, so that they can compare how they do things with how we do things- and hopefully employ the most effective techniques from both.
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