Keeping Peace with New Armor

The dispatch of a peacekeeping force to Lebanon requires a budget of Rp374 billion, most of which will be spent on new armored cars from France.

August 22, 2006

THE invitation from the United Nations Security Council came at last, one day after Indonesias Independence Day anniversary. Indonesia, along with six other countries, including France, Malaysia, and Bangladesh, was asked to be present at the UN Headquarters in New York to discuss the deployment of peacekeeping forces in southern Lebanon. Mark Malloch Brown, the UN Deputy Secretary-General, told the press that the countries to participate are tho

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