I refer to your article "Negosiasi Perjanjian Pertahanan Dihentikan" (Koran Tempo,11 March 2009), in which Minister Juwono Sudarsono was reported to have said that Singapore had "terminated" further discussions on the Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA).

This is misleading. There has no progress on the DCA because Indonesia insisted on substantive changes to the Implementing Arrangements (IAs) for the DCA despite having earlier agreed to the IAs. Sing