Overview

• Speaking at the UN General Assembly, President Prabowo offered to deploy at least 20,000 Indonesian troops to help secure any future Gaza peace deal.
• He said any deployment would occur only if authorized by the UN Security Council and the General Assembly.
• Indonesia underscored its peacekeeping capacity, citing 2,715 uniformed personnel serving with UN missions in 2024.
• Prabowo added that Indonesia would consider sending peacekeepers to Ukraine, Sudan and Libya.
• He welcomed recent recognitions of Palestinian statehood by the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Portugal, as the General Assembly has endorsed a France–Saudi proposal for a temporary mission to stabilize Gaza as part of a ceasefire.