He made the statement on the sidelines of a ceremony to mark the formal handing over of 99 citizens evacuated from Japan following a huge earthquake and subsequent tsunami in that country on Friday that had caused damages on nuclear power plants to their families.
One of the evacuees, Eko Prajoko (40), said he and other passengers of Garuda Indonesia GA-885 had been checked by local airport authorities for fear of radioactive contamination.
The minister said 94 of the evacuees are students of Tohoku University in Sendai while five others are crew of Shinsei Maru-18 ship from Shimizu Suissan company. They arrived here at 5.40pm.
Marty said the government continued working to assure the security of other Indonesians still in Japan after the disasters.
"As a country that has close relations with Japan Indonesia meanwhile will always support the Japanese government in its effort to deal with the impact of the disaster," he said.
A total 39 people who arrived on Tuesday are Jakarta residents so they could go home immediately while the others who have homes outside Jakarta would leave Jakarta on Wednesday. (*)
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