Monique Rijkers

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Monique Rijkers
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Nationality Indonesia
Alma mater Satya Wacana Christian University
Known forpro-Israel activism

Monique Rijkers is a Jewish Indonesian and pro-Israel activist. She was born in Makassar [1] and is the founder of the non-profit organization Hadassah of Indonesia, [2] a foundation that educates about diversity, especially regarding Jews and Israel. [3] Her surname is Rondonuwu-Mandagie, and she lives in Jakarta. [2] She is known to have met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in October 2017 at the Christian Media Summit. [1] Currently, She is one of the administrators of the YouTube channel FaktaIsrael.

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Education and career

She studied industrial microbiology at Satya Wacana Christian University, Salatiga. She then became active in journalistic activities. She has been working as a journalist for 14 years and has received 10 journalism awards. She has visited 36 countries, including the Silk Road Expedition, the Jewish Tour in Poland and Prague, and 3 times to Israel. [4] In 2016, she founded the Tolerance Film Festival. [5]

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Israel-Palestine conflict

In 2021, on her personal Facebook account, she proposed to relocate Gaza residents to Indonesia and settle them in a place to be called Gaza, where it will become the 35th province of Indonesia, saying that many Indonesians loved and donated to Gaza. She also suggested Gaza to be ruled by Egypt while leaving the West Bank to Fatah since it did not launch missiles to Israel. [6]

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