Some 104 evacuees from Sendai, Fukushima, who arrived in Tokyo on Monday are expected to arrive in Jakarta on Tuesday, the Indonesian embassy in Tokyo said in a statement received by ANTARA here on Monday.
It said the decision was taken after ambassador Muhammad Luthfi and the protection team for Indonesian citizens from the foreign ministry held a dialogue with the evacuees.
Four evacuees who arrived from Fukushima on Monday afternoon had been taken to a military hospital for tight health examination to assure their condition. After around two hours of examination they were declared cleared of radiation.
The first batch of the relief teams from the Indonesian embassy in Tokyo that is now still in Sendai, Miyagi, reported that it had just picked up a nurse from Indonesia known as Wisita Permanasari from Tohoku Kosee Nenkin hospital as well as three students from Natori namely Robert Dwiputra, Tahta Erlangga and Achmad Faisal Dwiputro.
Right now the team is still on the way to pick up two nurses namely Desi Subarkah and Jajang Rahmat Hidayat.
At 2pm local time the embassy`s call center had received confirmation that 10 nurses from Indonesia in Aomori who were reported missing earlier had been found safe.
Thirteen students and 41 university lectures from state Gajahmada University in Yogyakarta in Japan have until now still been unaccounted for.
"We are still checking and collecting information about their condition in Japan," head of the university`s international affairs, Rachmat Sriwijaya, said in Yogyakarta on Monday.
He said most of the students and lecturers were in Japan for an exchange program.
He said although they were believed to be safe they were living in a disaster area, adding there had been no reports so far about Gajahmada University students or lecturers falling victims to the tsunami or nuclear radiation.
"If they were found they would soon be evacuated to Tokyo and repatriated home along with other nationals," he said.(*)
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