The Indonesian President is pushing to have them awarded the Indonesian equivalent of the medal or honour, but we don't have a process that will award them anything for peacetime honours. The Opposition Leader is pushing to have something in place like a Medal Of Honour, but DSMs and VCs are purely combat medals.


(By the way, a Bitish Marine got a VC in Iraq, the first since the Falklands and the first non-posthumous one since Korea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Beharry )