"At the embassy there are still four migrant workers and 12 embassy staff members, still in the secured condition."Cairo (ANTARA News) - Indonesian ambassador to Libya Sanusi said several Indonesians in that country including some embassy staff members are still waiting for evacuation.
"At the embassy there are still four migrant workers and 12 embassy staff members, still in the secured condition," ambassador Sanusi told by telephone from Cairo, the Egyptian capital, on Friday.
The group also included two Indonesian students who wished to stay at the local university dorm, and several domestic helpers also wanted to stay with their employees in Libya, he said.
The ambassador said the embassy had difficulties in tracing another more than ten migrant workers in Libya because they had not been registered at the embassy upon their arrival there.
The embassy in Tripoli had already evacuated two batches of Indonesians to Tunis by a chartered Tunisia Air, namely the first batch of 253 people on Feb 26 and the second batch of 218 on Wednesday (Mar 2).
Some of the Indonesians evacuated to Tunisia had already returned to Indonesia by regular planes with the help of the RI embassy in Tunis.
In the meantime, chief information officer at the RI embassy in Cairo Iwan Wijaya Mulyatno said on Mar 3 that the eight Indonesians were stranded in Benghazi, Libya, after being evacuated to Egypt.
Iwan said they consisted of a man following a telephone call from a person called Ida Nurjanah to the protocol and consular head of the RI embassy in Cairo Muhammad Abdullah saying he and seven friends had been trapped in Benghazi and asked the RI embassy in Cairo for help.
Abdullah then suggested them to go to Shalom, a border crossing between Libya and Egypt.
Ambassador Fachir then told first secretary Thomas Ardian Siregar to pick them up there.
Thomas immediately met with Egyption immigration officers and persuasively explained them the condition of the Indonsians who were in need to be rescued and enter Egypt without visa.
The Egyptian immigration was very cooperative, and two Indonesians with no passports had been given by Thomas a pass and they were allowed to enter Egypt by the end of last week.
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