Indonesia is hoping to generate more internationally qualified
peacekeeping troops through the newly established Indonesian Peace and
Security Center in order to help maintain global peace and security.
There
are three reasons why Indonesia established the center: the
Constitution’s mandate for Indonesia to maintain world peace, the
absence of world peace at the present time and the need to improve the
skills of the Indonesian Military and National Police personnel for
international peace missions, according to President Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono.
“There have been several opportunities to improve world
peace that we missed, for example the one in Lebanon in 1996,” he said
during the ceremony to mark the beginning of the center’s construction
in Hambalang in West Java’s Sentul.
He said Indonesia actively
took part in diplomacy to help reduce the tension between Lebanon and
Israel at the time, but the absence of Indonesia’s diplomatic relations
with Israel had forced the country to use a third party to deal with
Israel.
“And when a truce was reached, Indonesia was in quandary
because it could not immediately deploy its peacekeeping force there,”
said Yudhoyono.
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