President Prabowo's Full Speech at the UN Session - He Hails Growing Cohort Calling for Palestinian Statehood

Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, US, September 23, 2025.
(photo credit: REUTERS/MIKE SEGAR)

New York - Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto delivered his speech entitled "Indonesian Call for Hope" at the General Debate session at the 80th General Assembly of the United Nations (UN), New York, United States, Tuesday afternoon local time.

President Prabowo delivered the speech with a duration of more than 19 minutes in English, with a third speaking order after Brazilian President Luiz Inwaycio Lula da Silva and United States President Donald Trump.

In his speech, President Prabowo spoke about humanitarian issues that were not only experienced by Palestinians, but also Indonesia, which had been colonized by colonialism for centuries.

President Prabowo also raised the role of the United Nations and other organizations under the auspices of the United Nations which provided assistance to Indonesia while fighting for independence. The following is President Prabowo Subianto's full speech which is translated into Indonesian:

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim, Assalamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.Shalom, Salve, Om swastiastu, Salam gukoh, Rahayu, Rahayu.

Your Excellency, Mr. Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations. Your Excellency, Mrs. Annalena Baerbock, President of the United Nations General Assembly.

Your Excellency, Mr. Morses Abelian, Deputy Secretary General for General Session and Management. Your Excellency, Heads of State, Heads of Government, Honorary Delegations, All of you,

It is a great honor to stand in the Hall of this great General Assembly, among leaders representing almost all mankind. We are of different race, religion and nationality, but we gather as a human family.

We are here first and especially as fellow human beings each created equal, awarded the inevitable right to life, freedom, and pursuing happiness.

The words in the Declaration of US Independence have inspired democratic movements on various continents including the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Mexican Revolution, the Chinese Revolution, and Indonesia's struggle and journey towards independence.

This declaration also gave birth to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations in 1948. "All humans are created equal" is a creator who paved the way for the unprecedented global prosperity and dignity. However, in the era of the glory of our own science and technology an era that was able to end hunger, poverty, and environmental damage we also continue to face the dangers, challenges, and serious uncertainties at this time.

Human carelessness, fueled by fear, racism, hatred, oppression, and apartheid, threatens our common future. My country has felt this pain. For centuries, the Indonesian nation lived under colonial domination, oppression, and slavery. We were treated lower than dogs in our own homeland. We, the Indonesian nation, know what it means to ignore justice and what it means to live in apartheid, live in poverty, and ignore equal opportunities.

We also know what solidarity can do. In our struggle for independence, in our struggle to overcome hunger, disease and poverty, the United Nations stands with Indonesia and provides us with important assistance.

The decision made here is based on humanitarian solidarity by the Security Council and this Assembly gives Indonesia international legitimacy, opens doors, and supports our early developments through the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Health Organization (WHO), and many other United Nations agencies.

And therefore, Indonesia is currently on the verge of mutual prosperity and greater equality and dignity.

The President, Your Majesty, Our World is driven by conflict, injustice, and deepening uncertainty. Every day we witness suffering, genocide, and blatant neglect of international law and human propriety.

In facing these challenges, we must not give up, as the Secretary-General of the United Nations said, "we must not give up". We must not give up our hopes or ideals. We must get closer, not further away. Together we must fight to achieve our hopes and dreams.

The United Nations was born from the ashes of the Second World War that claimed millions of lives. The United Nations was formed to ensure peace, security, justice, and freedom for all. We remain committed to internationalism, multilateralism, and on every effort that strengthens this great institution.

Currently, Indonesia is getting closer from the previous one to achieving the Sustainable Development Goal in ending extreme poverty and hunger because years ago, this assembly chose to listen and uphold social and economic justice. We will never forget. And today, we must not remain silent while the Palestinian people are deprived of the same justice and legitimacy in this hall.

His Majesty, Thucydides warned: "The strong do what they can, the weak bear what they have to bear." We must reject this doctrine. The UN is here to reject this doctrine. We must defend all, both strong and weak. The truth cannot be true. The truth must be true.

Indonesia is currently one of the biggest contributors to the United Nations Peacekeeping Force. We believe in the United Nations, we will continue to serve where peace requires guards not only with words, but with troops on the ground.

If and when the Security Council and the Supreme Assembly decide, Indonesia is ready to deploy 20,000 or even more of our sons and daughters to secure peace in Gaza or elsewhere, in Ukraine, in Sudan, in Libya, wherever peace needs to be enforced, peace needs to be maintained, we are ready.

We will bear this burden, not only with our children. We are also willing to contribute financially to support the United Nations' great mission to achieve peace.

"Mrs. President, Your Majesty, I convey to this assembly a message of hope and optimism which is based on action and implementation. Today we are listening to the speech of the President, President of the United Nations General Assembly.

It's true what he said. Without the International Civil Aviation Organization, will we be here today? Will we sit in this magnificent hall? Without the United Nations, we will not be safe. No country can feel safe. We need the United Nations, and Indonesia will continue to support the United Nations. Even though we are still fighting, we know the world needs a strong United Nations.

The world's population continues to grow. Our planet is under pressure. Food, energy and water insecurity haunts many countries. We choose to answer these challenges directly at home and help abroad whenever we can.

This year, we note the highest production of rice and grain reserves in our history. We are now self-sufficiency in rice and have exported rice to other countries in need, including providing rice for Palestine. We built a strong food supply chain, strengthened farmer productivity, and invested in climate smart agriculture to ensure food security for our children and children around the world.

We believe that in the next few years, Indonesia will become the world's food barn. As the largest archipelagic country in the world, we testify before you that we have felt the direct impact of climate change, especially the threat of rising sea levels.

Sea level on the north coast of our capital rises 5 centimeters every year. Can you imagine in ten years? In twenty years? For this, we were forced to build a giant sea wall, 480 kilometers long. It may take 20 years, but we have no choice. We have to start now. Therefore, we chose to face climate change not with a slogan, but with immediate steps.

We are committed to fulfilling the obligations of the 2015 Paris Agreement. We are targeting net zero emissions by 2060 and we believe we can achieve net zero emissions much earlier. We aim to reforestation more than 12 million hectares of degraded land, reduce forest degradation, and empower local communities with quality green jobs for the future.

Indonesia is shifting significantly from fossil fuel-based development to renewable energy-based development. Starting next year, most of our additional power generation capacity will come from renewable energy.

Our goal is clear: To eradicate all our citizens from poverty and make Indonesia the center of food, energy and water security solutions.

The President, Your Majesty, We live in a time when hatred and violence sound like the loudest sound. However, behind this noise there is a calmer truth: that everyone wants to feel safe, respected, loved, and pass on a better world to their children. Our children are paying attention. They learn leadership not from textbooks, but from our choices.

Currently, the disaster situation in Gaza is still spreading in front of our eyes. Currently, innocent people are crying for help, crying to be saved. Who will save them? Who will save innocent people? Who will save the elderly and women? Millions face danger right now, while we sit here, they face trauma, and irreplaceable damage to their bodies, they are dying from hunger. Can we remain silent? Will their screams go unanswered? Will we teach them that humanity is able to rise to face this challenge?

"Mrs. President, we must act now. Many speakers have said that. We must fight for a multilateral order where peace, prosperity and progress are not the privilege of a handful of people, but the right of everyone.

With a strong United Nations, we can build a world where the weak do not suffer what they should suffer, but live the justice they deserve. Let's continue the journey of the great ideals of mankind an unconditional aspiration that created the United Nations. Let's use science to lift, not use science to destroy. Let the rising nations help other nations to lift themselves.

I believe that the leaders of the great world civilization: Western, Eastern, North, South civilizations. Leaders of America, Europe, India, China, the Islamic world, around the world. I believe they will rise for the role demanded by history.

We all hope that world leaders will show great statesmanship, great wisdom, self-control, and humility, overcoming hatred, overcoming suspicion.

The President, the honorable Delegations, We are very heartened by the events of the last few days, in which the world's leading countries have chosen to side with the history of noble moral walks, the path of truth, the path of justice, humanity, and to stay away from hatred, overcome suspicion, and avoid the use of violence. The use of violence will give birth to violence. No country can oppress the entire community of mankind.

We may be weak individually, but a sense of oppression, a sense of injustice, which has been proven in the history of mankind, will unite with the powerful forces that will overcome this oppression, this injustice.

In closing, I would like to reaffirm Indonesia's full support for the Two-State Solution in Palestine. We must have an independent Palestine, but we must also recognize and guarantee Israel's safety and security. Only by doing so can we achieve true peace: peace without hatred, peace without suspicion.

President Prabowo - Indonesia Is Ready To Admit Israel If Israel Admits Palestine

President Prabowo Subianto will speak at the 80th UN General Assembly in New York, reviving Indonesia's diplomatic tradition.

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto reaffirmed Indonesia's commitment to a two-state solution, saying Indonesia's readiness to recognize the State of Israel if Israel recognizes the State of Palestine.

This was conveyed by President Prabowo during a speech at the High-level International Conference for the Peaceful Settlement of the Questionion of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution, a series of High Level Week UN's 80th General Assembly Session at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, United States, Monday, September 22 local time.

President Prabowo on this occasion reiterated Indonesia's commitment to a two-state solution which he considered the only way to realize the peace of the Palestinian conflict.

"We must guarantee the status of the Palestinian state. But Indonesia also states that if Israel recognizes the independence and state of Palestine, then Indonesia will recognize the State of Israel soon, and we will support all guarantees for the security of Israel," said President Prabowo, who was greeted with applause. all over the room.

Appreciating countries that dare to take a stand to recognize the Palestinian State, President Prabowo said it was the right move on the historical side and called on other countries to follow suit immediately.

"History will not wait. We must recognize the Palestinian state now," said President Prabowo.

"Recognition of state status must mean peace. Acknowledging means a real opportunity to realize lasting peace. That must be a real peace for all parties," he said.

To note, this conference was held in accordance with the resolution of the General Assembly A/RES/79/81 dated December 3, 2024 and the decision of the General Assembly 79/573 B dated September 5, 2025.

The conference was chaired by French President Emmanuel Macron and Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan Al Saud. President Prabowo received fifth speaking order after Jordan, Turkey, Brazil, and Portugal.

"This conference will adopt an action-oriented result document entitled "The Peaceful Settlement of Palestinian Problems and the Implementation of the Two-State Solutions", to immediately map the irreversible path towards a peaceful settlement of Palestinian problems and implementation of two-state solutions," quoted from the UN website.

Hundreds of thousands flee Israeli military's unprecedented force devastating assault on Gaza City

Israel is pounding Gaza City with some of the heaviest strikes in two years of war in its bid to force residents to make a perilous and costly journey towards the overcrowded south.

Having lost his eyesight in an Israeli airstrike, Ahmed Daif Allah spent part of the past week stumbling blindly toward an uncertain safety.

“The journey is incredibly tough, more than anyone could imagine,” Ahmed’s wife, Rafiq, told a local journalist who provided their footage to NBC News. “There is no pity, there is no humanity,” added Rafiq, who led her husband by the hand throughout their dayslong walk from Gaza City to the southern part of the enclave.

The couple is among the hundreds of thousands who have fled Gaza’s most populous area since Israel launched its new offensive on Tuesday, heeding Israeli leaflets and social media warnings to head south.

Palestinians from Gaza City move southwards with their belongings, on the coastal road near the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, on September 19, 2025 [Eyad Baba/AFP]

Avichay Adraee, the Israeli army’s Arabic-language spokesperson, warned Gaza City’s beleaguered population on Friday that it would be deploying “unprecedented force”, telling them to “take this opportunity and join the hundreds of thousands” moving south on al-Rashid coastal road – now the only permitted escape route.

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum related “distressing” reports from Gaza City on Friday, with people forced west towards the coastal road unable to rest under the relentless pace of attacks aimed at levelling buildings and infrastructure.

“This current military operation is completely destroying entire blocks, and there are still families who are trapped under the debris of the targeted houses, particularly in the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood,” said Abu Azzoum, reporting from Nuseirat in central Gaza.

While a growing number of Palestinians may now want to leave, despite their earlier resistance, many are unable to afford the cost of renting a vehicle to take household items and furniture to the overcrowded al-Mawasi area in southern Gaza.

Still, Abu Azzoum said hundreds have embarked on the long journey, many on foot, to al-Mawasi, which has itself come under Israeli attack in the past despite being designated a “safe zone”

Nivin Ahmed, 50, fled south from Gaza City to the central city of Deir el-Balah on Thursday, walking with seven family members.

“We walked more than 15km [9 miles], we were crawling from exhaustion,” she told the news agency AFP. “My youngest son cried from fatigue. We took turns dragging a small cart with some of our belongings.”

‘Dangerous situation on all levels’

The Israeli military said about 480,000 Palestinians had fled Gaza City since late August, while Gaza’s civil defence agency said on Friday that some 450,000 have been displaced towards the south.

Going on United Nations estimates of some one million people living in the enclave’s largest urban centre at that time, around half the population may already have fled.

However, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said this week that approximately 740,000 people were still in the north of the enclave as of Tuesday.

Israeli forces killed 43 people across the Strip since dawn on Friday, including 26 people in Gaza City, according to medical sources.

Three civilians were killed in an Israeli air strike that targeted a residential house in Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa, close to the Netzarim Corridor, sources told Al Jazeera.

Friday’s death toll also includes two aid seekers who were killed by the Israeli army in southern Gaza.

Displaced Palestinians at a community kitchen in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on September 19, 2025 [AFP]

A medical source at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza told Al Jazeera that a nine-year-old child had died from severe malnutrition in the hospital’s paediatric ward amid the worsening famine in the enclave.

The latest case brings the total number of deaths from Israel’s man-made famine to 441 since the war on Gaza began, according to Gaza Health Ministry figures.

Hospitals are struggling to cope with no fuel having entered the Strip for more than 10 days, according to Amjad Shawa, head of the Palestinian NGOs Network in Gaza.

He said fuel supplies in the besieged enclave will last just 72 hours, portending a “dangerous situation on all levels”.

Did Pedro Sánchez ‘regret’ not having ‘nuclear bombs’ to stop the war in Gaza?

A handful of Spanish media reported on Monday that Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez had expressed “regret” that his country did not have “nuclear bombs” to stop Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.

An article by newspaper La Gaceta was headlined: “Pedro Sánchez regrets not having nuclear weapons to ‘stop’ the Israeli response to Hamas.”

“Sánchez regrets not having nuclear arms to prevent the ‘genocide’ in Gaza,” media outlet OK diario wrote.

But a closer examination of Sánchez’s comments shows that, while the headlines cannot be considered incorrect, they have been taken out of context and sensationalised.

The Spanish premier explained that, although lacking a large military force, Spain was using the mechanisms at its disposal to curb the Israeli offensive in Gaza, where the Palestinian death toll now exceeds 64,000 according to the Hamas-run health ministry.

“Spain, as you know, doesn't have nuclear bombs, aircraft carriers, or large oil reserves,” Sánchez explained. “We alone can't stop the Israeli offensive. But that doesn't mean we won't stop trying. Because there are causes worth fighting for, even if winning them isn't in our sole power.”

He then went on to outline some of the measures adopted by Spain over the last two years in order to put pressure on the government of his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, and alleviate the suffering of civilians in Gaza.

These include humanitarian support for Gaza, the suspension of military equipment sales to Israel and the recent recognition of a Palestinian state.

His comments came while announcing nine further fresh measures, including an all-out arms embargo on Israel and a ban on the import of products from Israel’s illegal settlements.

But Sánchez’s political opponents were swift to accuse him of siding with Hamas, a designated terrorist organisation whose October 7 attacks on Israel initially triggered the war in Gaza.

he leader of the far-right party Vox, Santiago Abascal, claimed that “Sánchez would like to have nuclear weapons … but not to defend Spain. To defend Hamas.”

A spokesperson for the centre-right Popular Party (PP) also questioned what Sánchez had meant with his reference to nuclear arms: “A nuclear bomb on Tel Aviv? Is that what he intends to do?” Carlos Díaz-Pache, the party’s spokesperson in the Assembly of Madrid, asked.

Right-wing commentators have also been quick to judge the premier’s comments.

But claims that Sánchez would support a nuclear attack against Israel, or has encouraged a nuclear war against Israel, are inaccurate. Euroverify detected these misleading claims circulating in several languages on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and X.

FBI unveils new VIDEO of Charlie Kirk’s assassin

The FBI has released new video footage of the suspect in the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, showing the gunman leaping from a rooftop at Utah Valley University before fleeing into a wooded area.

The shooting occurred shortly after 12:20pm Mountain Time on Wednesday, when the suspect fired a single rifle round from the roof of a campus building that struck Kirk in the neck as he addressed a student audience.

The newly released video shows the figure running across the roof, climbing down the building – leaving behind palm impressions, smudges believed to contain DNA, and a shoe imprint, according to the FBI. The suspect is then seen sprinting across a grassy area near a parking lot, and disappearing into nearby woods.

A high-powered Mauser bolt-action rifle, along with ammunition marked with “transgender” and “anti-fascist” slogans, was later recovered in that wooded area, according to law enforcement sources cited by ABC News.

Utah Governor Spencer Cox urged the public to assist in the manhunt, noting that more than 7,000 tips have already been submitted to the FBI – the largest volume since the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013.

“We cannot do our job without the public’s help right now,” Cox said at a press conference on Thursday. The governor also announced that Utah will “pursue the death penalty” once the suspect is caught.

The FBI’s Salt Lake City office continues to share images of the person of interest and is offering up to $100,000 for information leading to the arrest of the suspect. Trace evidence collected so far includes shoe impressions, a forearm imprint, and a palm print recovered from the rooftop where the shot was fired.

The FBI continues to work alongside our law enforcement partners to seek justice in the murder of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025. We are releasing additional photos of a person of interest. Information about this developing investigation can be found… pic.twitter.com/woZacCxYgE

— FBI Salt Lake City (@FBISaltLakeCity) September 12, 2025

Kirk, 31, the founder of Turning Point USA, was a prominent conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump. His assassination has been described by officials as a targeted political assassination.

The reason for the mismatch would soon become apparent. After the briefing, Mr. Patel took to X again, this time to announce, “The subject in custody has been released after an interrogation by law enforcement.”

He added, “Our investigation continues.”

There are no indications any of this has jeopardized Mr. Patel’s job. He is a close ally to a powerful Trump aide, Stephen Miller. For his part, Mr. Bongino appears to have weathered a crisis earlier this summer after he called on his boss, Attorney General Pam Bondi, to quit over her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Yet there are unmistakable signs the White House thinks the bureau needs leadership help. Last month, the White House tapped Andrew Bailey, the attorney general of Missouri, to serve as deputy director of the F.B.I., forcing Mr. Bongino to share power with a far more experienced manager. Mr. Bailey started work this week.

On Thursday, about 22 hours after Mr. Kirk was shot, the investigation appeared to pick up momentum, when the police and the F.B.I. released security camera footage of a man in sunglasses and baseball cap believed to be the shooter, along with information about the bolt-action rifle and ammunition found near the campus.

Past investigations of high-profile incidents have also been plagued by missteps, including the 2013 inquiry after the deadly bombing at the Boston Marathon.

While there were multiple false starts as the public sought to identify the bombers, officials quickly zeroed in on two brothers, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, as the likely culprits after the F.B.I. published images and asked for the public’s help.

Law enforcement continued to search for the shooter.Credit...Kim Raff for The New York Times

The appeal led to a frantic police chase and shootout.

Since then, law enforcement’s ability to take video clips and feed them through facial recognition software for possible matches has vastly improved.

“We are confident in our abilities to track that individual,” the F.B.I.’s special agent in charge in Salt Lake City, Robert Bohls, said Thursday morning. “If we’re unsuccessful in identifying them, immediately, we will reach out to the public.”

By afternoon, Mr. Patel posted another, more conventional message on his X account, one that might have been written by any of his predecessors — offering up to $100,000 “for information leading to the identification and arrest of the individual(s) responsible for the murder of Charlie Kirk.”

At a news conference on the university’s campus in Orem hours later, Mr. Cox reiterated the plea for help in identifying and tracking the suspect.

Mr. Patel, flanking him, stayed silent.

Glenn Thrush covers the Department of Justice for The Times and has also written about gun violence, civil rights and conditions in the country’s jails and prisons.

Devlin Barrett covers the Justice Department and the F.B.I. for The Times.

Adam Goldman writes about the F.B.I. and national security for The Times. He has been a journalist for more than two decades.

Qatari prime minister slams Israel - 'State terrorism’

Qatar PM LIVE: ‘Revenge Begins…’: Doha To BOMB Israel? BIG Announcement After IDF Strike

Massive tensions between Qatar and Israel after the latter attacked Doha on September 9. Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani called out Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying, “These barbaric actions only reflect the barbarism of this person, who is dragging the region to a place where it unfortunately cannot be repaired.” Al Thani added that "The State of Qatar affirms that it will not tolerate any infringement on its sovereignty or territorial integrity. It will respond firmly to any reckless breach or attack that threatens its security and the stability of the region." He also called on other regional players to respond to Israel's barbaric actions. On September 9, Israel struck the headquarters of Hamas’ political leadership in Doha as members of the militant group gathered to consider a US proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. #Israel #Qatar #DohaStrike #Hamas #Netanyahu #MiddleEast #Tension #SheikhMohammed #AlThani #BarbaricActions #Sovereignty #Ceasefire #Gaza #GazaWar #GazaCeasefire #HamasPoliticalLeadership

Dikirim oleh The Times of India pada Selasa, 09 September 2025

Qatar said it has the right to respond to Israel’s strike in Doha that targeted Hamas political leaders, which it decried as a “blatant attack”.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, the Qatari prime minister, described Tuesday’s attack as “state terrorism” that targeted the security and stability of the region.

“Qatar… reserves the right to respond to this blatant attack,” he told a late night press conference.

“We believe that today we have reached a pivotal moment. There must be a response from the entire region to such barbaric actions.”

US president Donald Trump said he was “very unhappy” about Israel’s airstrike that killed six people, saying it advances neither Israel nor America's goals.

Trump called the strike on Hamas's political wing "unfortunate" and said he had directed US envoy Steve Witkoff to warn Qatar but it was too late to stop the strike.

Hamas said five of its lower-ranking members and a Qatari security official were killed in the airstrike, but that all its leaders survived the attack.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the strike on Qatar was “entirely justified”.