Indonesia’s Board of Peace dilemma: Prabowo caught between domestic backlash and US ties

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Indonesia is facing mounting pressure to reconsider its membership in the US-led Board of Peace (BoP), but leaving comes with risks, analysts say. JAKARTA: When Indonesia President Prabowo Subianto accepted the United States’ invitation to join the Board of Peace (BoP) on Jan 22, he cast it as a strategic step to achieve lasting world peace and elevate Indonesia’s global standing as a middle power . But public scepticism of Indonesia’s BoP participation has grown in the wake of the US-Israeli