 Excellent, distinguished participants, ladies and gentlemen, I would like at the outset to convey that sincerest apologies of the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Indonesia, His Excellency Purnomo Yuskiantoro, for not being able to be present in person, he has a very high regard to the seminar and was really looking forward to participating personally. To his deep regret, pressing duties of state have prevented him from going. So upon his instruction and with the permission of the organizer, please allow me, Lieutenant General Budiman, Secretary General of the Indonesian Ministry of Defense, to read the presentation that Minister Purnomo has prepared for his important occasion. It consists of three parts, as follows, first, developments of security environment in the Asia Pacific region, second, Indonesia-US military defense cooperation, and third, how Indonesia and the U.S. can contribute the security partnership building in the region. Let me now start the first part, the development of security environment in the Asia Pacific region. Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, we are now watching the shifting of global economic center of gravity that's turning to Asia, while Asia's economic crisis has been triggering the current downturn among major economies in other parts of the global has further amplified that shift. Along with this outstanding economic performance, Asia countries are also gaining weight in the global geopolitical equation and increasingly playing crucial roles in the regional dynamics. Despite the emergence of a certain Asia-large power, such as India, and in particular the rise of China, that has become a driving force, the U.S. reminds the most powerful strategic actor is reflected in the area in the different expenditure budget factor. In tandem with this key big player, so is Asia countries individually and ASEAN as a group are also growingly influential in interstate relation within the region and in turn and charting the regional security architecture. If we look at the ongoing development of the security architecture in the Asia Pacific region, we can see the changing regional security environment today is driven by the power shift due primarily to the rise of China. We are optimistic about the ability of China and the U.S. whose continued presence in the region is also appreciated to manage this changing strategic landscape. It is worth nothing, however, that both China and the U.S. have also been working concurrently to engage in diplomatic and security cooperation with medium and small states in the region, most notably the ASEAN members. This is particularly evident with ASEAN that has been consistently trying to integrate the major powers into regional ranksmen. Institution and not with ultimately shift the regional security architecture, this can be seen in the formation of among others. ASEAN regional power, ASEAN plus three, ASEAN plus six, is ASEA summit an effect adding significantly to this institution is the ASEAN Defense Minister meeting or ADMM and ADMM plus. The advent of the ADMM in 2006 and ADMM plus in 2010 involving 10 ASEAN states along with eight plus countries where the U.S. is also a member has further strengthened to the common in the four to build robust regional security architecture. The state goals of the ADMM plus are to provide platform for constructive dialogue at the ministerial level and to enhance capacity building of member through practical cooperation. Over the last decade for example there have been more and more ASEAN initiated meetings that elevated defense related issue involving the defense military forces of member state through such arrangement bilateral and multilateral defense relation among ASEAN members themselves as well as between ASEAN and their plus partner have been by and large positive it is to be noted in this regard that in the region multilateral institution repression one of the six pillar of U.S. ASEA policy notwithstanding their doubtful ability to tackle key security issues related to territorial dispute such a race of institutional effort have managed to draw a great deal of tension to the rising non-traditional security traits such as humanitarian assistance, maritime security, counterterrorism and climate change. These non-traditional security issues to constitute a comfort zone of cooperation for the regional security architecture to involve. Indonesia attaches great importance to developing defense diplomacy and forming strategic security partnership in order to pursue confidence building with our partners and hence our military capability and promote defense industry in doing so we have conducted defense military official reciprocal visit, dialysis and consultations information and intelligence sharing officers training and educational exchange as well as joint military exercise be it bilaterally or multilaterally. To enhance our defense capability we have conducted military training and education exchange defense development assistance and weapon procurement at the same time we spare no effort to improve domestic defense industry include research and development cooperation investment in joint ventures as well as transfers of technology for us such defense cooperation constitute not only a means to better safeguard our national show frame and territorial integrity but also to be better equipped to contribute to the maintenance of regional and global peace and stability. I observe that other states in the region are taking a similar path solid economic recovery and robust growth has allowed many governments in the region not only to elevate poverty increase prosperity and improve social well being of their people but also to enable them to modernize their defense forces. In Indonesia too as our economy advances the government this year for example has allocated 1.3 percent GDP for defense spending in comparison with an average of 2 to 3 percent that of developed countries. This enables Indonesia to gain assets of its military up to 30 percent leveraging its existing structure for Indonesia defend forced modernization priority to keep up with today's state-of-the-art technology is aimed at maintaining our deterrence capability. Other ASEAN countries in varying degree have also seen a spate of significant military modernization effort however while military modernization might be seen as a natural process with companies economic growth it must be met with a greater level of transparencies so as to avoid misperception miscalculation and mistrust and to prevent military modernization from degenerating to become destabilizing arm race. The second part of this presentation is Indonesia-US bilateral defense cooperation. Indonesia and the US enjoy their bilateral defense relations for many decades as both countries have much in common although in general defense relations between Indonesia and the US have been positive and stable despite the relationship remind full of surprise we should also be aware of that Indonesia might be the most important country that for most Americans now little about in this regard we should work more intensive to increase people-to-people contact and links in the future growing defense cooperation between the two countries has also brought significant contribution to the implementation of comprehensive partnership established in 2010. I notice cooperation in military education and training works very well we also see remarkable increase in the joint exercise activities involving our two armed forces including cooperation under global peace operation initiative program. In recent years we have seen the significantly increasing frequency of meeting among high ranking official at the ministerial level for example I have met two US secretary of defense secretary Gates and secretary Panetta and I do wish to see secretary Chuck Huggle in the near future in the meeting with the US secretary of defense in various occasion we express our confidence that our defense relations have been very strong tangible and comprehensive. To strengthen future the strategic partnership it was an important milestone that both countries signed framework arrangement on cooperative activities in the field of defense. This arrangement not just serves as an umbrella of the bilateral defense cooperation but it also an instrument for both country that will enhance the quality of defense cooperation. I would also like to emphasize the importance of the Indonesia US security dialogue and the United States Indonesia bilateral defense dialogue in boosting the defense cooperation of the two countries. The two countries find the roles of these dialogues that have been fundamental in discussing concrete program and activities undertaken every year. What we need in the future among others is to expand of vigorous soldier to soldier program such as visit and exchanges for young officer and increase the allocation of the IMAT program so that Indonesia can send more personnel to the US institutions in the future. We should take note that the IMAT program is the most cost-effective component of a security relationship. The key element to enhance the role of the military in democratic society. This brings us the last part of the presentation how Indonesia and the US could contribute to security partnership building in the region. Ladies and gentlemen, whilst the Asia Pacific region has developed to become a geostrategic center of gravity, the development of regional security architecture is still somewhat lagging behind yet security challenges abound. Let us therefore see how Indonesia and the US can contribute to such in the future. Regional peace and stability. Being responsible and conscientious stakeholders Indonesia and the US share common interest in the maintenance of peace and stability in the Asia Pacific with alarming tension in flashpoint that extend from the Korean peninsula to Myanmar. We are indeed facing serious security challenges that require right and effective responses. In this regard, one important concern that we are having in Indonesia is the possible return of old war type polarization with if happen world repression a serious set back to the region. Indonesia have been making effort to prevent this possibility from happening within ASEAN and hope that the US will exert its influence to shift the whole world region from this undesirable possibility. South China Sea. One of the regional flashpoint to what is the South China Sea. As articulated by President SBY, Indonesia is of the view that even without writing for resolution of what territorial dispute we can still find wise to transform the potential conflict in the South China Sea into potential cooperation. Indonesia together with ASEAN are urging the full implementation of the declaration of PENDAC of 2002 and pushing for the speedy works on more binding code of conduct in the South China Sea. We are in courage with the recently more forthcoming attitude of China. Maritime security and freedom of navigation and being both maritime countries in Indonesia and the US share great interest in maritime security and important stake in freedom of navigation under international law including in particular UNCLOS 1982. Close cooperation between our two countries in this area will certainly reinforce regional maritime partnership will be much further enhanced with the possible association by the US to UNCLOS in the same vein US bilateral assistance to Indonesia to increase its capacity in carrying out its responsibility as a literal state in the Malacca state is being fitting user from the region and beyond. Counterterrorism. Indonesia and the US have been more than a decade cooperating very closely in the fight against terrorism. Our close cooperation in this field should continue not only for our own sake but also to the benefit of the whole region. The Indonesia-US Co-Chairmanship of the ADMM plus expert walking group on counterterrorism represents our joint contribution to the security partnership building in the region is keeping operation. Indonesia has always been preparing itself to play positive roles beyond the region. In the field of defense this ambition is manifested in our active participation in United Nations peacekeeping operation. In our serious efforts to improve our standard and increase our capability as true contributing country we have opened the Indonesia peace and security center last year which is a comprehensive training center for our military in view of our shared aspiration. We see the US with its global peace operation initiative as a potential major partner in the undertaking for global peace. So those are just a couple of items that I want to highlight in this presentation as I see it Indonesia and the US have fast potential and bright future for different cooperation. A cooperation that serves our respective national interests that cater our joint objectives and the benefit regional partnership. Excellency distinguished participant ladies and gentlemen I've just completed my reading of me of minister Purnomo presentation on behalf of the minister and on my own behalf I thank you very much for your attention thank you thank you general I really appreciate that and and please pass our thanks to minister Purnomo we missed him here and would like to see him when he when he comes to visit the secretary and we hope that would be soon we're going to take a just a quick break because I know the minister the the general has to leave for additional meetings with US counterparts so if you could join me in thanking him once again while he takes his leave thank you