At UN, Indonesian president says guaranteeing Israel’s security is key to peace, ends speech with, ‘Shalom’

Addressing the UN General Assembly, Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto says the world must respect Israel’s right to live in security, and ends his speech saying, “Shalom.”

Indonesia is the most populous Muslim country in the world, and does not have relations with Israel.

“We must also recognize, we must also respect, and we must also guarantee the safety and security of Israel. Only then we can have real peace,” Subianto says.

Subianto vows that once Israel recognizes Palestine, “Indonesia will immediately recognize the State of Israel.”

Subianto says that Indonesia wants a peace that shows that “might cannot make right.”

“We believe in the UN. We will continue to serve where peace needs guardians — not with just words, but with boots on the ground,” he says.

“If and when the UN Security Council and this great assembly decide, Indonesia is prepared to deploy 20,000 or even more of our sons and daughters to help secure peace in Gaza,” he states.

He says that Indonesia was also willing to send peacekeepers elsewhere, including in Ukraine, Sudan, or Libya.