Indonesia has unofficial embassies (trade offices) with Israel and buys weapons from Israel and Elbit systems. Jakarta also hosted a Mossad spy base.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/22/indonesia-plans-details-treat-2000-injured-palestinians-galang-island

The Indonesian government is working on plans to treat 2,000 people from war-ravaged Gaza, holding a series of inter-ministerial discussions to discuss logistics, legality and foreign policy implications relating to the highly sensitive proposal, according to a senior government official.

Indonesia announced earlier this month that it would provide temporary medical assistance to 2,000 Palestinians from Gaza, with the uninhabited island of Galang identified as one possible site. Located just south of Singapore, the island was once home to a former camp for Vietnamese refugees and most recently the site of a pandemic hospital.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/08/indonesia-wounded-gaza-residents-galang-island

Axios reported this July that Israel’s spy agency The Mossad had visited Washington to seek US support in convincing countries to take hundreds of thousand of Palestinians from Gaza, with Indonesia among several countries reportedly receptive to the idea.

https://www.axios.com/2025/07/18/israel-send-palestinians-gaza-indonesia-ethiopia

Any permanent relocation would be hugely controversial in Indonesia, but so far, criticism of the Gaza plan has been relatively muted in the south-east Asian country.

“At the moment there are so many issues in the headlines so the Gaza issue to be honest is not that widely reported in the media,” said political analyst Kennedy Muslim. “It’s not a major issue in Indonesia at the moment.”