Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what undertakings were given to the Government that British-trained officers from Detachment 88 would not be deployed for counter-insurgency and political work in West Papua.

The UK routinely trains members of the Indonesian National Police, including Densus 88, across a broad spectrum of subjects at the Jakarta Centre for Law Enforcement Cooperation (JCLEC). Courses are subject to an Overseas Security and Justice Assessment which considers the risk that training might assist participants in violating human rights in the future. No courses at JCLEC offer lethal force training and all UK courses have an element of human rights awareness.