Indonesia, in spite of its traditional reservations about the role of external powers in regional security, also tacitly supports and facilitates U.S. military predominance in the region. It participates in the annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training bilateral military exercises with the U.S. Navy and regularly hosts visiting U.S. naval vessels. The bilateral military relationship, which had been broken after Indonesian military involvement in the massacre of civilians in East Timor in 1991, was restored, first with international military