Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto has reassured local Islamic groups \u200bthat he will withdraw from U.S. President Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ if the platform does \u200bnot benefit Palestinians, a government statement said on Friday. The \u200bparticipation of Indonesia, \u2060the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, on the board, and its decision to contribute \u200btroops for a \u200cGaza stabilisation force, has drawn criticism from experts and Muslim groups at home, who say it compromises \u200bits long-standing support for the Palestinian cause. Prabowo gathered the groups’ leaders for a meeting on Thursday evening where he reiterated his \u200creasoning \u200cbehind joining the board, \u200baccording to a statement put out by the government communication office. Prabowo will withdraw from the board if it does not benefit Palestinian and Indonesian interests, the \u200bstatement quoted Hanif Alatas of the Islamic Brotherhood Front as saying. “The president said that if he sees that there is no \u200blonger any benefit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto has reassured local Islamic groups \u200bthat he will withdraw from U.S. President Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ if the platform does \u200bnot benefit Palestinians, a government statement said on Friday. The \u200bparticipation of Indonesia, \u2060the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, on the board, and its decision to contribute \u200btroops for a \u200cGaza […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n