HNW backs Indonesia's evaluation of BoP effectiveness following US-Israel attack on Iran

Former Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda stated that the potential success of the Board of Peace (BoP), established by US President Donald Trump, has diminished due to the war between the United States and Israel against Iran. The Deputy Speaker of the MPR, Hidayat Nur Wahid (HNW), told reporters on Thursday (5 March 2026) that President Prabowo Subianto’s move to evaluate Indonesia’s membership in BoP was appropriate and important, given the developments related to the war between Israel and Iran. ‘That Mr Prabowo, in last night’s meeting, said he would conduct an evaluation regarding Indonesia’s presence in BoP, considering developments related to the war between Israel and Iran,’ Hidayat said. ‘And in my view, the evaluation should be expedited, because clearly the BoP’s effectiveness and its moral and legal legitimacy have collapsed, collapsed by America and by Israel,’ he added. He argued that BoP’s potential for success may decline after the US and Israel attack Iran. In fact, he suggested the BoP’s success could be entirely nonexistent. The PKS politician also argued that the war initiated by the US and Israel would not stop at Iran; it could provoke tensions with Gulf states and areas attacked in retaliation by Iran. ‘So this battlefield, this conflict, is widening even further. Therefore the assessment that its potential to succeed has declined is correct, but more correct still is that the potential might not only decline but could even be nihil,’ he said. ‘Because it is America, Donald Trump, who initiated BoP, who is its chairman—the only party with veto power—who is the one sponsoring, together with Israel, to expand the battlefield, and that runs counter to BoP’s original vision,’ he added. Previously, Hassan Wirajuda revealed that BoP’s potential success has declined due to the US-Israel war against Iran. ‘Moreover, with the war in Iran, the prospect that BoP and the mission aimed at ceasefire, armistice, humanitarian assistance, rehabilitation, and reconstruction could be reduced,’ Hassan said after meeting President Prabowo Subianto at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, quoted on Wednesday (4 March). Hassan said that in his meeting with Prabowo there was an impression that BoP’s prospects of achieving its ceasefire and reconstruction objectives had declined; this impression arose after Prabowo communicated with heads of state, particularly from countries of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). ‘There is such a sense, and from his communications with other heads of state, especially the OIC member states, the sense is that BoP’s potential to succeed has declined; we will see how it develops,’ he concluded.