Jakarta, May 21 -- The Garuda Contingent (KONGA) or Garuda Troops are Indonesian National Army troops who participate in peacekeeping operations in other countries. Indonesia began contributing troops to the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping force in 1957.

It is a major contributor to UN peacekeeping and currently, has the fifth-largest peacekeeping contingent globally, with 2,559 military personnel deployed across eight missions.

Over one thousand Indonesian military personnel from the Garuda Contingent Task Force XXV MONUSCO have been training at the Peacekeeping Mission Center (PMPP) in Sentul, Bogor, West Java, since April this year for their assignment in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Congo has a wealth of natural resourc...