New York : Indonesia is prepared to deploy 20,000 soldiers to Gaza as part of a United Nations peacekeeping mission, President Prabowo Subianto announced at the 80th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York .
“We must not remain silent while justice and legitimacy are denied to Palestinians in this hall,” Subianto said, urging nations to protect “the powerful and the weak alike.” He highlighted Indonesia’s record as a key contributor to UN missions and pledged to provide personnel “where peace is needed, not only with words but with action.”
The president confirmed that Indonesia would send “20,000 or more of its sons and daughters to help keep the peace in Gaza or elsewhere, even in Ukraine, Sudan, or Libya,” if the UN Security Council and the General Assembly authorise