ASEANEWS HEADLINE-ISRAEL/PALESTINE WAR | U.N. NEW YORK, USA: Indonesia reasserts Palestine focus at United Nations
Delegates walk out as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 81st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at UN headquarters in New York City, the United States on Sept. 24, 2026. (Reuters/Jeenah Moon)
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The country’s delegate walking out during Netanyahu’s address and Foreign Minister Sugiono’s attendance at Palestine-related meetings in New York marked a shift from President Prabowo Subianto’s position at the United Nations’ highest forum in 2025, an analyst says.
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I ndonesia joined dozens of countries in walking out on Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in a show of protest as Israel faces growing diplomatic isolation over its actions against Palestine.
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A widely circulated video showed Indonesia’s seven-member delegation rise and walk out of the General Assembly hall as Netanyahu started delivering his statement.
Some other countries left a single representative or did not attend the address altogether.
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Meanwhile, representatives of the United States, Germany and Argentina remained in the hall during the speech.
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Netanyahu responded to the walkout by calling the departing delegates “cowards” before spending the next 40 minutes defending Israel’s policies on Palestine and Iran, among other issues, to a largely empty hall.
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“If there are any other moral cowards who haven’t left this hall, please do so now,” the prime minister said before his address.
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Delegates walk out as Israel’s Netanyahu begins UNGA address
Dozens of delegates walked out of the United Nations General Assembly hall on Thursday, Sept. 24, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began his address. As Netanyahu took the podium, members of the Israeli delegation stood and applauded while delegates from several countries left the hall. Before proceeding with his speech, Netanyahu addressed those who walked out, calling them “moral cowards.”
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In a statement to The Jakarta Post on Friday, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Vahd Nabyl A. Mulachela said the walkout represented Indonesia’s “solidarity with the people of Palestine” and condemnation of Israel’s “crimes against humanity”, insisting that Israel’s repeated offenses could not be normalized by the international community.
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Yvette Tanamal and Yerica Lai
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Jakarta/New York, United States
Sat, September 26, 2026
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