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(1) DOMESTIC MONITORING OF ELECTIONS.—
(A) The Government of Indonesia provides official
accreditation to independent election-monitoring or-
ganizations, including the Independent Election
Monitoring Committee (KIPP), to observe national
elections without interference by personnel of the
Government or of the armed forces.
(B) In addition, such organizations are allowed
to assess such elections and to publicize or otherwise
disseminate the assessments throughout Indonesia.
(2) PROTECTION OF NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGA-
NIZATIONS.—The police or military of Indonesia do
not confiscate materials from or otherwise engage in
illegal raids on the offices or homes of members of
both domestic or international nongovernmental or-
ganizations, including election-monitoring organiza-
tions, legal aid organizations, student organizations,
trade union organizations, community organizations,
environmental organizations, and religious organiza-
tions.
(3) ACCOUNTABILITY
FOR
ATTACK
ON
PDI
HEADQUARTERS.—As recommended by the Govern-
ment of Indonesia’s National Human Rights Com-
mission, the Government of Indonesia has inves-
tigated the attack on the headquarters of the Demo-
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cratic Party of Indonesia (PDI) on July 27, 1996,
prosecuted individuals who planned and carried out
the attack, and made public the postmortem exam-
ination of the five individuals killed in the attack.
(4) RESOLUTION
OF
CONFLICT
IN
EAST
TIMOR.—
(A) ESTABLISHMENT OF DIALOGUE.—The
Government of Indonesia is doing everything
possible to enter into a process of dialogue,
under the auspices of the United Nations, with
Portugal and East Timorese leaders of various
viewpoints to discuss ideas toward a resolution
of the conflict in East Timor and the political
status of East Timor.
(B) REDUCTION
OF
TROOPS.—The Gov-
ernment of Indonesia has established and im-
plemented a plan to reduce the number of Indo-
nesian troops in East Timor.
(C) RELEASE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS.—
Individuals detained or imprisoned for the non-
violent expression of political views in East
Timor have been released from custody.
(5) IMPROVEMENT
IN
LABOR
RIGHTS.—The
Government of Indonesia has taken the following ac-
tions to improve labor rights in Indonesia:
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(A) The Government has dropped charges
of subversion, and previous charges against the
General Chairman of the SBSI trade union,
Muchtar Pakpahan, and released him from cus-
tody.
(B) The Government has substantially re-
duced the requirements for legal recognition of
the SBSI or other legitimate worker organiza-
tions as a trade union.
(c) SENSE OF THE CONGRESS.—It also is the sense
of the Congress that the violent acts of the resistance in
East Timor should be condemned, as they discredit the
East Timorese cause, and could result in additional violent
reprisals by the Indonsian armed forces.
(d) UNITED STATES MILITARY ASSISTANCE
AND
ARMS TRANSFERS DEFINED.—As used in this section, the
term ‘‘military assistance and arms transfers’’ means—
(1) small arms, crowd control equipment, ar-
mored personnel carriers, and such other items that
can commonly be used in the direct violation of
human rights; and
(2) assistance under chapter 5 of part II of the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2347 et
seq.; relating to international military education and
training or ‘‘IMET’’), except such term shall not in-
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clude Expanded IMET, pursuant to section 541 of
such Act.
DIVISION 
G—FURTHER 
ADDI-
TIONAL 
MISCELLANEOUS
PROVISIONS
TITLE 
XXIX—PROHIBITION 
ON
FUNDS TO FOREIGN COUN-
TRIES THAT ASSIT THE GOV-
ERNMENT OF LIBYA
SEC. 2901. PROHIBITION ON FOREIGN ASSISTANCE TO ANY
COUNTRY 
THAT 
ASSISTS 
LIBYA 
IN 
CIR-
CUMVENTING UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—None of the funds made available
in this Act and the amendments made by this Act shall
be made available for assistance to any government if the
President determines that such country has assisted the
Government of Libya in violating sanctions imposed by
United Nations Security Council Resolution 748 (1992).
(b) EXCEPTION.—This section shall not apply if the
President determines that making such funds available is
important to the national security interest of the United
States.
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DIVISION H—ARMS TRANSFERS
CODE OF CONDUCT
TITLE XXX—ARMS TRANSFERS
CODE OF CONDUCT
SEC. 3001. SHORT TITLE.
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Code of Conduct
on Arms Transfers Act of 1997’’.
SEC. 3002. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) Approximately 40,000,000 people, over 75
percent civilians, died as a result of civil and inter-
national wars fought with conventional weapons dur-
ing the 45 years of the cold war, demonstrating that
conventional weapons can in fact be weapons of
mass destruction.
(2) Conflict has actually increased in the post
cold war era, with 30 major armed conflicts in
progress during 1995.
(3) War is both a human tragedy and an ongo-
ing economic disaster affecting the entire world, in-
cluding the United States and its economy, because
it decimates both local investment and potential ex-
port markets.
(4) International trade in conventional weapons
increases the risk and impact of war in an already
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over-militarized world, creating far more costs than
benefits for the United States economy through in-
creased United States defense and foreign assistance
spending and reduced demand for United States ci-
vilian exports.
(5) The United Nations Register of Conven-
tional Arms can be an effective first step in support
of limitations on the supply of conventional weapons
to developing countries and compliance with its re-
porting requirements by a foreign government can
be an integral tool in determining the worthiness of
such government for the receipt of United States
military assistance and arms transfers.
(6) It is in the national security and economic
interests of the United States to reduce dramatically
the $840,000,000,000 that all countries spend on
armed forces every year, $191,000,000,000 of which
is spent by developing countries, an amount equiva-
lent to 4 times the total bilateral and multilateral
foreign assistance such countries receive every year.
(7) According to the Congressional Research
Service, the United States supplies more conven-
tional weapons to developing countries than all other
countries combined, averaging $11,889,000,000 a
year in agreements to supply such weapons to devel-