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Charting a new horizon for Indonesia’s participation in UN Peacekeeping: Looking beyond numbers
This paper examines the need for Indonesia to recalibrate its approach to UN peacekeeping by moving away from a numbers-based strategy. Over the past two decades, Indonesia's strategy to strengthen its status as a major UN peacekeeping contributor has focused on increasing the number of peacekeepers on the ground. This is evident in the 2012 'Vision 4,000 Peacekeepers' initiative. While this strategy succeeded in making Indonesia one of the top ten Troop/Police-Contributing Countries (T/PCCs) by 2017, such progress was dependent on favourable domestic and international contexts, including strong domestic stakeholder support and the establishment of five major new peacekeeping missions in the early 2010s. However, changes in the international peacekeeping landscape, chiefly financial difficulties within the UN and evolving conflict dynamics, make increasing peacekeeper numbers harder and less attractive. The paper proposes that Indonesia explore three untapped potentials: (a) strengthening its intellectual contribution to UN peacekeeping; (b) integrating economic interests into its peacekeeping policy; and (c) increasing the number of Indonesians at the UN Secretariat and missions. The paper provides key recommendations at the policy, institutional and partnership levels for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is the Chair of the National Coordination Team on Peacekeeping Operations.
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