In late July, another group of Indonesian agriculture students from East Nusa Tenggara departed for Israel as part of a nearly year-long internship at the Arava International Centre for Agricultural Training (Aicat).
This is not a fringe programme. It is part of a formal agreement signed in 2014 between Chinese-Indonesian businessman Agus Suherman and the Israeli-based training centre. A total of 100 Indonesian students were enrolled in the 2024-2025 cohort.
The Indonesian government may not officially recognise Israel, but this programme is recognition by another name. These students enter on Israeli visas, train at Israeli institutions and work on Israeli land - even as Palestinians are starved, bombed, displaced and imprisoned by the same state.
Why anyone with freedom of movement would voluntarily leave their country and go to Israel at this point is beyond me
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Indonesia is currently fighting their own colonial war in West Papua.
It is because of the copper mine there. It used to be controlled by a US company called Freeport McMoRan that used Indonesian military to oppress the indigenous population.
im guessing in most countries the population is pro palestine but the government is pro israel (except countries like iran , yemen …) atleast now they are
