This letter is directed at those who defend Indonesia’s participation in the so-called Board of Peace (BoP) for Gaza. The defense of this body is not about peace. It is about disciplining outrage and making mass violence administratively acceptable.

Public opposition to the Board of Peace is repeatedly dismissed as emotional. This dismissal is dishonest. What is being rejected is not diplomacy, but a familiar script: Palestinian suffering stripped of politics, Israeli violence stripped of accountability, and colonial domination repackaged as international management.

The Board of Peace treats Gaza as a technical problem. Bombed homes are reduced to numbers. Entire families killed by airstrikes disappear into damage assessments. Forced displacement becomes a financing gap. Political freedom is erased and replaced with reconstruction phases, donor pledges, and timelines. This is not problem-solving. It is responsibility removal.

Gaza was not destroyed by misrule. Gaza was not destroyed by incompetence. Gaza was destroyed by sustained military assault under a decades-long occupation and blockade. Any framework that talks about rebuilding while refusing to center this fact is not........

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