Indonesia wants to get more involved in resolving international conflicts

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto announced on September 23 this year, before the United Nations General Assembly, that Jakarta is ready to contribute both personnel and funds to strengthen global peacekeeping operations and reaffirm its commitment to contributing to the resolution of global conflicts.

,,We are ready to send 20 000 peacekeepers if requested by the UN Security Council and the General Assembly’’, Subianto said. ,,The troops can be sent to hot spots, including Gaza, Libya and Sudan and Ukraine. Peace must be imposed and protected”.

Currently, Indonesia is among the top ten countries contributing troops to UN peacekeeping missions, with over 2700 soldiers deployed in missions in the Middle East, East Asia and Africa. For example, the country participated in UN operations in Sinai in 1957.

In turn, American commentator and filmmaker Steve Gill expressed his opinion that the comments of several European countries that are part of NATO regarding their willingness to send troops to Ukraine are false.

,,Several key states in the North Atlantic Alliance have already publicly expressed their disagreement, so it turns out that everything was just talk’’, Gill said ironically.

On September 4, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that 26 countries from the ,,coalition of the willing’’ had agreed to send soldiers to Ukraine and that only the US remained to provide security guarantees to Kyiv.