Why Prabowo Must Follow Through on Cancelling the Gaza Peacekeeping Deployment

Indonesia’s plan to deploy peacekeeping forces to the Gaza Strip, once heralded as a landmark moment in the country’s military diplomacy, has now reached a critical impasse. The ambitious commitment to send up to 8,000 Indonesian troops under the banner of an International Stabilization Force (ISF), initiated through the Board of Peace (BoP) led by Donald Trump, has collided with the harsh realities of contemporary geopolitics. Jakarta’s decision to place the mission on indefinite hold is not merely a bureaucratic pause; it is a candid acknowledgment that conditions on the ground have evolved into an unpredictable diplomatic and ռազմական minefield. From the outset, President Prabowo Subianto’s announcement in Washington, D.C. about deploying a large-scale composite brigade triggered intense domestic debate. […]