[1] The bilateral relations between Indonesia and Lebanon started with de jure acknowledgement of Indonesian Republic by Lebanese President Bechara El-Khoury on July 29, 1947.

The diplomatic relations was officially established on 27 February 1950 when President Sukarno appointed Bagindo Dahlan Abdullah, a member of the Central Indonesia National Committee, to serve as the ambassador of the United States of Indonesia to Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan with a permanent residence in Baghdad,[2] through the Indonesian embassy in Cairo was also accredited to Lebanon.

In the mid 1950s, Indonesia established their representative office in Beirut, however it was closed in 1976 because of the Lebanese Civil War.

Indonesia also established a consulate general in Tripoli in 1997, the second largest city in Lebanon.

[1] In 2006, Indonesia sent a contingent of more than 1,000 soldiers as members of the United Nations peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon.