Ready when you are: Anti-terror police personnel prepare their weapon during an anti-terror drill ahead of US President Barack Obama visit to Indonesia in Kuta, Bali on Friday. Obama has canceled his planned trip to Indonesia and Australia next week after a political debacle at home over health reform has forced him to remain in Washington. AP/Firdia Lisnawati
Bali Police will run a joint counterterrorism drill with the local military command in Kuta on Friday in preparations for US President Barack Obama's visit, which has been delayed until June.
“We have nothing to lose if we go on with the training. We are enhancing our personnel skills [with the drill],” said Bali Police chief Insp. Gen. Sutisna.
The police and Udayana Military Command will hold the drill at Kartika Plaza Kuta Hotel.
Bali Police had planned to deploy 2,400 to secure Obama's visit in Bali. The Navy also sent a warship from its Eastern Fleet Command in Surabaya to Bali waters.
Obama has postponed his trip to Asia, scheduled to begin next week, until June so he can stay in Washington for a possible Sunday vote on his healthcare overhaul.
The trip to Indonesia was to be a homecoming of sorts for the president, who spent four years in the world's largest Muslim country as a boy when his mother married an Indonesian man.
Obama also had been scheduled to deliver his first address to the Muslim world since his historic speech in Cairo last year and was scheduled to meet with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
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