Jumhur said here on Monday the whereabouts of the four Indonesian nurses were previously not known but later it was reported that they were safe and had been evacuated to a Tokyo military hospital.
They were taken to the hospital to be examined whether or not they were exposed to radiation following the explosion of a nuclear power plant (PLTN) in Fukushima as a result of the quake and its subsequent tsunami.
The four Indonesian workers were Dwi Astuti (nurse who was placed in 2009) from Klaten district, Central Java, Puspawati (nurse, placed in 2009) from Mimika Baru, West Papua, Harlina Semi (nurse, placed in 2009) from Panakkukang, Makassar and Yulianti (nurse, placed in 2009) from Senapelan, Pekanbaru, Riu province.
It was reported earlier that some 112 Indonesian citizens residing in one of the most affected areas hit by last week`s earthquake and tsunami in Sendai prefecture will shortly be evacuated to Indonesia, the Indonesian Ambassador to Japan said.
"Last night the 112 people arrived in Tokyo. They have agreed to be evacuated soon to Jakarta," said Indonesian ambassador to Japan Muhammad Luthfi to ANTARA through international phone, Monday afternoon.
Lutfi added that in the group of Indonesians that evacuated from Sendai to Tokyo by the Indonesian embassy, there was one Vietnamese and Taiwanese who joined the group.
On the fate of the four Indonesian working as crews of the missing Kuni Maru No. 3 vessel in Yamagi prefecture, another region washed by the tsunami last Friday, the Indonesian embassy did not know their whereabouts, the ambassador said.(*)
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