[2] The current ambassador, Hajriyanto Y. Thohari, was appointed by President Joko Widodo on 7 January 2019.
On 11 November 1952, the Indonesian embassy in Cairo, Egypt was concurrently accredited to Lebanon.
[4] Around 1955, the Indonesian government opened a diplomatic mission in Beirut, but it did not have embassy status.
[5] Due to the start of the civil war in Lebanon, the Indonesian diplomatic mission in Beirut was closed in 1976.
[5] The diplomatic mission in Beirut was reopened as an embassy in 1996 with Dalindra Aman as the first Indonesian ambassador to Lebanon.