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Renewed strategy to UN peacekeeping
Participation in UN peacekeeping is an opportunity to showcase the products of Indonesia’s defense industries to other countries.
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An Indonesian peacekeeping squad is on duty in El Fashir, Sudan, in early 2018. (Shutterstock/Rizki Buna)
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n Aug. 18, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres outlined his newly released Digital Transformation Strategy for UN Peacekeeping at the high-level Security Council open debate on UN Peacekeeping Operations: Technology and Peacekeeping.
He said new technologies were changing the character and nature of conflicts, with an indelible impact on civilians. He also emphasized that the UN and its 12 peacekeeping missions around the world must fully embrace new technologies in the face of ever-changing challenges.
This will be the future direction of UN peacekeeping and this is why a renewed approach is needed.
Participation in UN peacekeeping is an integral part of Indonesia’s constitutional mandate and its independent and active foreign policy doctrine.
Over the past two decades, Indonesia’s approach to UN peacekeeping has always focused on increasing the number of its peacekeepers on the ground.
This was particularly evident with the outlining of Vision 4,000 Peacekeepers in 2012, designed to place Indonesia among the top 10 contributors to UN peacekeeping through the deployment of up to 4,000 peacekeepers by 2019.
The strategy proved to be a sound one. Indonesian peacekeepers on the ground significantly increased in number from a mere 199 by the end of 2005 to 2,827 after 15 years. Indonesia also accomplished the goal of becoming a top 10 contributor in January 2017 — a position it retains until today.
