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What’s behind Prabowo’s Ukraine peace plan?
Electoral calculations and Indonesia’s history of close ties with Moscow play a part
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The peace initiative unveiled by Indonesian Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto (centre) at the Shangri-La Dialogue set off a flurry of questions back home.
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Johannes Nugroho
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When Indonesia’s Defence Minister and presidential hopeful Prabowo Subianto unveiled his peace plan for Ukraine
Understandably, his proposal was met with disbelief and scepticism by Western officials. His multi-point plan called for the “immediate cessation” of hostilities between Russia and Ukraine, followed by the creation of “demilitarised zones” using the current front lines, the deployment of United Nations peacekeeping troops and eventually UN-monitored referendums in the “disputed territories”.
