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This week, Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto thought he was having a confidential discussion with American leader Donald Trump at the Gaza peace summit in Egypt.

Instead, a live microphone situation revealed Prabowo asking Trump to arrange a meeting with his son Eric, who serve as executives at the family business.

This was just one in a series of gaffes committed by international figures thinking they're off the record.

Here are five other memorable errors:

Organ Transplants and Immortality

At a military parade in Beijing this September, China's leader Xi Jinping and Russia's head Vladimir Putin were recorded talking about organ transplants as a method for extending lifespan.

"Vital organs can be repeatedly transplanted. The longer you live, the more youthful you get, and it's possible to even achieve immortality," the Russian translator was recorded stating.

Xi, who was off camera, responded in Chinese: "Experts forecast that in the current era people may reach 150 years old."

Dialogue recorded from Chinese president Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin

'Sea Rising at Your Door'

Ex-Australia border protection chief Peter Dutton came under fire in 2015 when he made light about the situation of residents in the Pacific experiencing rising sea levels.

Dutton was conversing with then-prime minister Tony Abbott, who had recently come back from climate change talks with Pacific Island leaders in Port Moresby.

Observing how a migration discussion was running on "delayed schedule", Abbott replied: "We had a bit of that up in Port Moresby."

Dutton added: "Schedules become irrelevant when you're about to have water lapping at your door."

These remarks provoked anger from regional nations and environmentalists, while the political opponents demanded Dutton to apologise.

Peter Dutton recorded making jokes with Tony Abbott about rising sea levels

'Prejudiced Voter'

While serving as UK PM Gordon Brown was campaigning in 2010, he faced a constituent who challenged him on immigration and the economic situation.

Still wired up to a broadcast microphone when he entered the car, Brown was recorded stating: "That was a disaster – they should not have placed me with that woman. Who thought of that? Absurd."

Asked what she had said, he replied: "All topics, she was just a bigoted woman."

This incident received extensive coverage for an extended period and Brown went on to lose the election.

'I Cannot Bear Netanyahu. He Lies.'

Ex-American leader Barack Obama was in conversation at the G20 summit in Cannes in 2011 with France's leader Nicolas Sarkozy when their remarks about Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu were picked up by a active recording device.

Sarkozy said: "I cannot bear Netanyahu. He's a liar."

Per a version from a French interpreter cited by Reuters, Obama responded: "You're fed up with him but I must work with him more often than you."

'Major League ***hole'

A vintage recording incident from then US presidential candidate George W. Bush occurred when he made a negative comment about a journalist from The New York Times.

The Republican presidential nominee was didn't realize that a microphone was live when he leaned over to Dick Cheney at a Labor Day rally and remarked, "That's Adam Clymer, complete jerk from the New York Times."

Cheney responded: "Absolutely, he is, definitely."

Bush at a political gathering in 2000