Middle East and Africa
The Foreign Ministry confirmed that 744 Indonesian Military (TNI) personnel are scheduled to depart for the conflict-hit region on May 22 as part of the regular rotation of Indonesian peacekeepers stationed in southern Lebanon.
President Prabowo Subianto (right) salutes the coffins of Indonesian soldiers killed while serving with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on April 4, at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Banten. (AFP/Yasuyoshi Chiba)
Indonesia’s plan to redeploy hundreds of peacekeeping troops to Lebanon has sparked growing concern over troop safety following a series of deadly incidents involving Indonesian personnel serving with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).The Foreign Ministry has confirmed that 744 Indonesian Military (TNI) personnel are scheduled to depart for the conflict-hit region on May 22 as part of the regular rotation of Indonesian peacekeepers stationed in southern Lebanon.
The rotation comes shortly after four Indonesian UNIFIL peacekeepers were killed in separate explosions in southern Lebanon on March 29 and 30, while several others were injured in subsequent incidents near UN facilities amid hostilities between the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah and the Israeli Defense Forces.
