"We have officially received the ambassador`s resignation letter, and he has been inactive since yesterday (Feb 22)," said the Foreign Ministry`s spokesperson Michael Tene,
The ambassador`s resignation was prompted by the bloody unrest in Libya that had been going on since mid February, where the government tried to suppress demonstrations with force leaving more than 200 casualties.
Besides the country`s Interior Minister Abdel Fatah Yunes had also announced his resignation and pleaded the armed forces to supports demonstrators in Tripoli.
Yunes resignation was done after a bloody incident occurred last week while demonstrators fight against its president Moamar Ghadafi`s four decade of government.
The Indonesian Foreign Ministry also pleaded the Indonesian citizen`s condition in Libya to remain in their houses and keep in touch with the Indonesian embassy there, said Michael Tene.
Bad communication channels and limited transportation access in Libya, the ministry continues to evaluate the current situation.
"No fly zone had also been applied in Libya, meanwhile there is no security guarantee on land lines," he said.
Michael said that the ministry is now monitoring any possible evacuation options (by using which means), and now the information is still unclassified for the media.
Most of Indonesians in Libya are generally in a good condition and they are staying in their residential that mostly lives in Tripoli and its surrounding areas, he said.
Current situation in Tripoli itself is yet to be normalized, but it is relatively safer than Benghazi which located around 1000 KM from the country`s capital city Tripoli.
(T.A050/HAJM/F001)
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