REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- A total of 450 Indonesian citizens from the war-torn Yemen are expected to arrive in the country on Monday and Tuesday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said a press statement here on Sunday.
They are parts of the Indonesian citizens who have been trapped in Yemen and are being evacuated to Indonesia.
The ministry said that on Monday (April 13) a total of 90 Indonesian citizens aboard an Air Force (TNI AU) Boeing 737-400 airplane would arrive at Halim Perdanakusma airport at 10.30 a.m. local time.
Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi and Indonesian Defense Forces (TNI) General Moeldoko are expected to welcome them at Halim Perdanakusuma.
The remaining 360 citizens will arrive at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on Tuesday, April 14, at 10 a.m. They will be flown with a chartered airplane.
Data collected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicated that there are still a number of Indonesian citizens who are housed in accommodating facilities in various Yemeni regions for further evacuation.
Based on the data, 58 citizens are still in Sana'a, 37 in Hudaydah, 423 in Tarim, 260 in Mukalla and 111 in Aden.
The Indonesian government continues to appeal its citizens to be prepared for evacuation before the situation becomes further deteriorated.
The Indonesian government has dispatched an integrated team to Yemen and Salalah, Oman to evacuate WNIs.
It mobilized an airplane Boeing 737-400 belonging to the Air Force (TNI AU) and one ship chartered from Djibouti.
The evacuation team, dispatched by the government of Indonesia, comprises 43 personnel, including 14 from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 21 from the air force, seven from the police, and three from the National Intelligence Agency (BIN).
The Indonesian citizens' evacuation operation in Yemen also involves five Indonesian representatives from the Embassy in Sanaa, Embassy in Riyadh, Embassy in Muscat, Embassy in Addis Ababa, and the Consulate General in Jeddah.
The team members assigned in Hudayah, Tarim and Al-Mukalla, Aden (Yemen), Salalah (Oman) and Djibouti continue to collect data and make approaches to the relevant authorities.
They monitor the on-going conditions to carry out the evacuation of Indonesian citizens out of Yemen.
Besides, the evacuation team in South Yemen is still exploring the availability of ships from Djibouti to pick up WNIs trapped in Aden.
Many ships are afraid to call at the city's port because of unfavorable and unstable security conditions.
According to the foreign ministry, security conditions in Yemen, particularly around the Aden and Sana'a cities were deteriorating.
The armed clashes among the conflicting parties were also escalating.
These conditions had posed difficulties in the efforts to evacuate the Indonesian citizens there, thus forcing the team to follow special scenarios for the evacuation process.
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