Behind every soldier who departs, there is a family waiting with a\nsimple hope: a safe return.<\/p>\n
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Few Indonesians know the exact location of Adchit\nal-Qusayr or Bani Hayyan on the world map. Those names sound distant,\nalmost foreign. They feel like small dots with no direct connection to\ndaily life in Jakarta, Makassar, or Padang.<\/p>\n
However, in late March 2026, that distance suddenly collapsed. Not\nthrough travel or encounters, but through news of sorrow.<\/p>\n
From that small area in southern Lebanon came the tragic news. Three\nIndonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) soldiers fell in the United\nNations (UN) peacekeeping mission. Chief Soldier Farizal Rhomadhon was\nkilled by indirect artillery fire. A day later, an explosion struck a\nlogistics convoy, claiming the lives of Captain Infantry Zulmi Aditya\nIskandar and Sergeant First Class Muhammad Nur Ichwan.<\/p>\n
On television news screens, the event appeared as an international\nreport with a brief chronology, official statements, and condolences. In\nthe fast flow of information, tragedies like deaths often present as\nfacts that fade from public attention within moments, replaced by other\nnews. Yet, stories of human deaths never truly end.<\/p>\n
Every death has two stories: the public one and the personal one. The\npublic story moves quickly, supplanted by the next. The personal story,\nhowever, sometimes only begins when the television is turned off and the\nhouse falls silent again.<\/p>\n
In that story, there might be a child still waiting for the sound of\ntheir father\u2019s footsteps at the door. There might be a partner slowly\nlearning to speak only through memories.<\/p>\n
At such times, the word \u201cservice\u201d loses its heroic tone and becomes\nsomething far more real: a loss that cannot be replaced or fully\nunderstood.<\/p>\n
It is at that point that \u201cworld peace\u201d ceases to be an abstract\nconcept. It descends from the realm of geopolitics and presents itself\nas a tangible human experience. An experience for those close ones left\nbehind.<\/p>\n
We may imagine peace as a calm state, a world without the sound of\nweapons and without fear. But the \u201cpeacekeepers,\u201d like the three fallen\nsoldiers, work in places where peace does not yet exist. They stand in\nthe in-between areas, guarding the thin line that separates stability\nfrom chaos.<\/p>\n
The presence of UN peacekeeping forces underscores that peace is not\na settled state, but rather an ongoing effort, improved day by day, amid\nuncertainty.<\/p>\n
Indonesia has chosen to be part of that effort from the beginning.\nThrough the Garuda Contingent, Indonesia sends soldiers to various\nconflict zones around the world, including southern Lebanon, in the\nUnited Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) mission. They patrol\ntense villages, monitor fragile ceasefires, and strive to ensure\ncivilians can live without fear.<\/p>\n
Of course, each time the Red and White flag flies in conflict\nterritory, a collective pride emerges. It conveys the message that\nIndonesia is not merely a spectator in the world, but a participant in\nupholding humanity amid disputes.<\/p>\n
The issue is that this pride always walks hand in hand with risk.<\/p>\n
Behind every soldier who departs, there is a family waiting with a\nsimple hope: to return. A hope that seems ordinary, but is in fact the\nmost fundamental. No family truly prepares itself to accept the reality\nthat a peacekeeping duty can end in a very different kind of return.<\/p>\n
When the remains return to the homeland, grand concepts of\ngeopolitics suddenly shrink. The complex international world contracts\ninto the loneliness of a family room. It is there that the question\nabout peace becomes deeply personal: is peace still worth it when it\ndemands such a great sacrifice?<\/p>\n
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