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Created
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08JAKARTA1469
2008-08-01 07:24:00
CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN
Embassy Jakarta
Cable title:
LEBANON PEACEKEEPING: INDONESIA EXPANDS
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C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 JAKARTA 001469
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
DEPT FOR EAP, EAP/MTS, EAP/MLS, EAP/RSP, PM, PM/PPA
(FEATHERSTONE)
SECDEF FOR USDP/ISA/APSA D.WALTON
NSC FOR E.PHU
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/01/2018
TAGS: PREL MARR KPKO ID XF
SUBJECT: LEBANON PEACEKEEPING: INDONESIA EXPANDS
CONTRIBUTION
REF: A. JAKARTA 1390
B. JAKARTA 593 AND PREVIOUS
Classified By: Pol/C Joseph L. Novak, reasons 1.4(b+d).
C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 JAKARTA 001469
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
DEPT FOR EAP, EAP/MTS, EAP/MLS, EAP/RSP, PM, PM/PPA
(FEATHERSTONE)
SECDEF FOR USDP/ISA/APSA D.WALTON
NSC FOR E.PHU
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/01/2018
TAGS: PREL MARR KPKO ID XF
SUBJECT: LEBANON PEACEKEEPING: INDONESIA EXPANDS
CONTRIBUTION
REF: A. JAKARTA 1390
B. JAKARTA 593 AND PREVIOUS
Classified By: Pol/C Joseph L. Novak, reasons 1.4(b+d).
1. (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia has sent a 75-person military
police force to augment UNIFIL in Lebanon. It also plans to
send a 200-person military Force Protection Unit in coming
months. These contributions are in addition to the GOI's
850-person peacekeeping battalion which is already stationed
in Lebanon. These new deployments--plus the planned
deployment to Darfur--underscore Indonesia's continued
commitment to international peacekeeping. END SUMMARY.
NEW FORCE ON WAY TO LEBANON
2. (U) The Indonesian government has sent a 75-person
contingent of military police to Lebanon to join the United
Nations International Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). The
contingent is drawn from the three main services of the
Indonesian military (TNI) and includes four women. (Note:
Military police enforce discipline within military units,
including their contact with the civilian population.)
According to TNI headquarters, Lebanese Prime Minister
Siniora had put the request for UNIFIL reinforcements to
Indonesian President Yudhoyono in a meeting held on the
margins of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) in
Dakar, Senegal in March.
3. (C) In an August 1 discussion with DepPol/C, Riando
Sembiring, Head of Peacekeeping Affairs in the Office of
International Security and Disarmament at the Department of
Foreign Affairs (DEPLU),explained that this was the first
contingent of Indonesian military police to participate in
UNIFIL. The military police mission, serving the UNIFIL
operation as a whole, had previously been performed by troops
from other participating countries. The mission had become
vacant and Indonesia had offered to take its turn. Like
Indonesia's main Garuda XXIII battalion (850-person strong)
already in Lebanon, the military-police deployment would have
a one-year duration.
MORE ON THE WAY
4. (C) Indonesia's contribution will broaden further in
coming months. According to Sembiring, the GOI is preparing
to send a Force Protection Unit of 200 soldiers to Lebanon to
protect UNIFIL headquarters. The arrangement would be
similar to that of the GOI's military police, he explained,
in that other nations had provided troops previously and
Indonesia was now taking its turn. The unit was in
pre-deployment training and was slated to be sent to Lebanon
in September. Its tour of duty would be one year.
5. (C) Sembiring confirmed that Indonesia intended to
continue to supply peacekeeping troops to UNIFIL. Although
the government had not made a formal decision yet, it was
likely that in late 2008 a fresh Indonesian battalion would
replace the Garuda XXIII battalion now in Lebanon, he added.
A SUSTAINED CONTRIBUTION
6. (C) As reviewed above, the latest deployment is part of a
series of substantive Indonesian contributions to UNIFIL
since its creation in 2006. The UNIFIL deployment now ranks
JAKARTA 00001469 002 OF 002
as one of Indonesia's largest peacekeeping operations ever.
Peacekeeping historically has been a mainstay of Indonesia's
contribution to international security, a role that continues
to grow. These new deployments--plus the planned deployment
to Darfur (see ref a)--underscore Indonesia's continued
commitment to international peacekeeping.
HUME
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
DEPT FOR EAP, EAP/MTS, EAP/MLS, EAP/RSP, PM, PM/PPA
(FEATHERSTONE)
SECDEF FOR USDP/ISA/APSA D.WALTON
NSC FOR E.PHU
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/01/2018
TAGS: PREL MARR KPKO ID XF
SUBJECT: LEBANON PEACEKEEPING: INDONESIA EXPANDS
CONTRIBUTION
REF: A. JAKARTA 1390
B. JAKARTA 593 AND PREVIOUS
Classified By: Pol/C Joseph L. Novak, reasons 1.4(b+d).
1. (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia has sent a 75-person military
police force to augment UNIFIL in Lebanon. It also plans to
send a 200-person military Force Protection Unit in coming
months. These contributions are in addition to the GOI's
850-person peacekeeping battalion which is already stationed
in Lebanon. These new deployments--plus the planned
deployment to Darfur--underscore Indonesia's continued
commitment to international peacekeeping. END SUMMARY.
NEW FORCE ON WAY TO LEBANON
2. (U) The Indonesian government has sent a 75-person
contingent of military police to Lebanon to join the United
Nations International Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). The
contingent is drawn from the three main services of the
Indonesian military (TNI) and includes four women. (Note:
Military police enforce discipline within military units,
including their contact with the civilian population.)
According to TNI headquarters, Lebanese Prime Minister
Siniora had put the request for UNIFIL reinforcements to
Indonesian President Yudhoyono in a meeting held on the
margins of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) in
Dakar, Senegal in March.
3. (C) In an August 1 discussion with DepPol/C, Riando
Sembiring, Head of Peacekeeping Affairs in the Office of
International Security and Disarmament at the Department of
Foreign Affairs (DEPLU),explained that this was the first
contingent of Indonesian military police to participate in
UNIFIL. The military police mission, serving the UNIFIL
operation as a whole, had previously been performed by troops
from other participating countries. The mission had become
vacant and Indonesia had offered to take its turn. Like
Indonesia's main Garuda XXIII battalion (850-person strong)
already in Lebanon, the military-police deployment would have
a one-year duration.
MORE ON THE WAY
4. (C) Indonesia's contribution will broaden further in
coming months. According to Sembiring, the GOI is preparing
to send a Force Protection Unit of 200 soldiers to Lebanon to
protect UNIFIL headquarters. The arrangement would be
similar to that of the GOI's military police, he explained,
in that other nations had provided troops previously and
Indonesia was now taking its turn. The unit was in
pre-deployment training and was slated to be sent to Lebanon
in September. Its tour of duty would be one year.
5. (C) Sembiring confirmed that Indonesia intended to
continue to supply peacekeeping troops to UNIFIL. Although
the government had not made a formal decision yet, it was
likely that in late 2008 a fresh Indonesian battalion would
replace the Garuda XXIII battalion now in Lebanon, he added.
A SUSTAINED CONTRIBUTION
6. (C) As reviewed above, the latest deployment is part of a
series of substantive Indonesian contributions to UNIFIL
since its creation in 2006. The UNIFIL deployment now ranks
JAKARTA 00001469 002 OF 002
as one of Indonesia's largest peacekeeping operations ever.
Peacekeeping historically has been a mainstay of Indonesia's
contribution to international security, a role that continues
to grow. These new deployments--plus the planned deployment
to Darfur (see ref a)--underscore Indonesia's continued
commitment to international peacekeeping.
HUME