Indonesia's Prabowo calls U.S.-backed peace plan in Gaza the 'right step'

SINGAPORE -- The latest U.S.-backed proposal from Israel calling for a ceasefire with the Palestinian group Hamas is an "important right step" to end the eight-month war in Gaza, Indonesia's Defense Minister and President-elect Prabowo Subianto said on Saturday at a security forum in Singapore.

"Although we have to further study the details of this proposal put forward and announced [by U.S. President Joe Biden] ... we do view this proposal as an important right step in the direction that we have to go," Prabowo said in a special address at the Shangri-La defense forum.