Tel Aviv Tribune Net correspondents
Jakarta- Chairman of the Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation Committee and MP in the Indonesian Parliament, Mardani Ali Sera, said that work is underway in Parliament to approve a law to boycott Israeli products or those belonging to companies that support Israel or are present in it, saying that he has begun collecting signatures to support the presentation of a first draft of this law, to be one of the The first laws approved by Parliament in its new session, which began last month.
The representative added in a statement to Tel Aviv Tribune Net that he hopes that the task will be completed within 3 months, after preparing what is known as the “first academic percentage” and then the draft within weeks, indicating that the representatives will coordinate in this regard, as they prepare the details of this new law with the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, As well as the Halal Products Guarantee Authority of the Indonesian government, and civil society institutions.
This draft law coincides – according to what the representative says – with the clear interest of the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Palestinian issue diplomatically and politically, especially in light of what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank.
He added: “Calls for a boycott have remained limited throughout the past period to civil society institutions and civil society organizations, and for this reason we seek for the state to have a leading role, as part of interest and solidarity with Palestine.” He stressed that the Indonesian Parliament hopes that this law will translate into strong pressure against the targeted products. And to stop providing support to Israel, explaining: “Whoever produces these products stops supporting Israel, we will also stop boycotting him.”
Official and popular solidarity
Although many Indonesians practice the behavior of boycotting products mentioned in boycott awareness campaigns and solidarity with the Palestinian people informally on social media, there has never before been a detailed and binding law regarding boycott in all its forms, which could be considered – if approved The law is an important development in the popular and official position in support of Palestine in Indonesia.
The Indonesian representative’s statement to Tel Aviv Tribune Net came during his participation in a protest in front of the US Embassy in Jakarta, in which hundreds of Indonesians attended to commemorate the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, which falls today, November 29.
The participants in the protest called for strengthening the work of the International Criminal Court and exerting more international pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop the raging war on the Gaza Strip. They called on the Arab and Islamic countries and the international community to bear humanitarian responsibility towards the Palestinians who are subjected to daily massacres, crimes against humanity and ongoing genocide. .
In a related context, on the 14th of this month, the Indonesian Parliament called on the international community to work to remove Israel from membership in the United Nations, seeking to isolate it internationally as punishment for its crimes against the Palestinians, and its continued involvement in genocide against them for more than a year.