Jakarta, June 20 -- Deputy Speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), Eddy Soeparno, has praised President Prabowo Subianto's decision to skip the G7 Summit in Canada amid escalations in the Israel-Iran conflict.

"President Prabowo's decision not to attend the G7 forum is the best decision," he said in a written statement released here on Friday.

He opined that the G7 member states' support for Israel's self-defence excuse for launching missile attacks at Iran, which they described as a "principal source of regional instability and terror," vindicated Prabowo's decision not to attend the forum.

Soeparno said that by not joining the meeting, President Prabowo has made a correct and strategic step in responding to the conflict ...