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Reference ID	Created	Released	Classification	Origin
08JAKARTA1469	2008-08-01 07:24	2011-08-30 01:44	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	Embassy Jakarta

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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). 
 
¶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. 
 
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