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This week, Indonesian leader Prabowo Subianto thought he was having a private conversation with US President Donald Trump at the Gaza peace summit in Egypt.

However, a live microphone situation revealed Prabowo asking Trump to organize a meeting with his son Eric, who hold positions at the family business.

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

Below are several additional memorable blunders:

Transplant Procedures and Everlasting Life

At a military parade in Beijing in early autumn, China's leader Xi Jinping and Russia's head Vladimir Putin were overheard discussing organ replacement as a method for extending lifespan.

"Vital organs can be continuously replaced. The more you extend your life, the more youthful you get, and it's possible to even reach eternal life," Putin's interpreter was recorded stating.

Xi, who was off camera, answered in Chinese: "Some predict that in the current era people may live to 150 years old."

A conversation recorded from Chinese president Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin

'Water Lapping at Your Door'

Former Australian border protection chief Peter Dutton came under fire in 2015 when he made light about the plight of residents in the Pacific facing rising sea levels.

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

Observing how a migration discussion was running on "delayed schedule", Abbott responded: "There was a similar situation up in Port Moresby."

Dutton commented: "Time doesn't mean anything when you're about to have the ocean reaching your home."

The comments provoked anger from regional nations and climate activists, while the opposition Labor party demanded Dutton to apologise.

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

'Bigoted Woman'

As Labour prime minister Gordon Brown was campaigning in 2010, he encountered a constituent who questioned him on immigration and the economy.

Still wired up to a Sky news microphone when he entered the car, Brown was recorded stating: "That went terribly – they should not have placed me with that woman. Whose idea was that? Ridiculous."

Asked what she had said, he answered: "Everything, she was just a prejudiced person."

This incident dominated headlines for weeks and Brown went on to lose the election.

'I Can't Stand Netanyahu. He Lies.'

Ex-American leader Barack Obama was in discussion at the international conference in Cannes in 2011 with then French president Nicolas Sarkozy when their remarks about Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu were picked up by a live microphone.

Sarkozy stated: "I cannot bear Netanyahu. He deceives."

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

'Total ***hole'

A classic recording incident from former White House hopeful George W. Bush occurred when he made a disparaging remark about a reporter from The New York Times.

The Republican presidential nominee was didn't realize that a recording device was active when he leaned over to Dick Cheney at a political event and said, "That's Adam Clymer, complete jerk from the New York Times."

Cheney answered: "Absolutely, that's true, big time."

Bush at a political gathering in 2000