Indonesia claims to be the first nation to prepare up to 8,000 troops for deployment to Gaza as part of phase two of the ceasefire deal mediated by the United States late last year. General Maruli Simanjuntak, the army’s chief of staff, stated that soldiers’ training had already begun and that they would focus on engineering and medical duties in Gaza.
Last month, President Donald Trump announced that Indonesia had joined his Board of Peace. The UN Security Council has given it the authority to create an International Stabilisation Force (ISF), which will assist in securing Gaza’s border regions and guaranteeing the demilitarisation of the region, including Hamas’ disarmament.
Although the precise role and date of the Indonesian troops’ deployment to Gaza remain unclear, it seems President Prabowo Subianto has decided to send them. Some Islamic organisations in Indonesia, where there is a great deal of public outrage over the US role in Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, have condemned his decision to join Trump’s Board of Peace.
Prabowo, however, has maintained that Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world, ought to assist in stabilising Gaza and has stated that its participation would be in the interest of a two-state resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem in the long run.
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