"Indonesia actually has a very small number of workers in Egypt, only a few hundred people, and their repatriation following political unrest in Egypt will be coordinated by the foreign affairs ministry," Muhaimin said after the installation of echelon IV officials at his ministry.
Following the political unrest in Egypt to demand President Hosni Mubarak`s resignation , the Indonesian government is currently making efforts to repatriate all its citizens from the Middle Eastern country.
Muhaimin said there were around 6,000 Indonesian citizens including migrant workers, students, and tourists in Egypt and thus the government wanted them all repatriated.
Besides Indonesia, other countries whose citizens are in Egypt at present are also repatriated to their countries of origin.
Meanwhile, Xinhua news agency reported that a
chartered flight of Thai Airways left Bangkok on Tuesday morning for Jordan to evacuate stranded Thais in violence-stricken Egypt.
Quoting a Thai Foreign Ministry spokesman, Xinhua said that early Tuesday morning, a chartered flight from Jordan already evacuated some 87 Thais who had been trapped at the Cairo International Airport for three days.
Those stranded passengers will be then moved out from the Amman Queen Alia International Airport in Jordan when the flight of Thai Airways arrives there in the afternoon.
The flight is expected to arrive in Bangkok at about 2.45 a.m.
Thani Thongpakdi, the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said five Thai officials including psychologists and high- ranking officers from the custom department also went with the Thai Airways` flight in case those Thais need help.
All Thai nationals in Egypt were now safe and officials from the embassy were standing by at the Cairo Airport to help, he said.
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