However, ACT until now was still attempting to monitor the information on the whereabout of Aisha reportedly kidnapped, said ACT President Ahyudin in a press release published through the organization`s email on Tuesday.
"We appreciate her spirit to be a volunteer worker. If it is true that she went to Somalia, her departure is not under the coordination with ACT, hence it will be difficult for ACT to monitor it," he said.
Furthermore, Ahyudin said if Aisha was sent by ACT and would join the Indonesian ACTion team for Somalia, ACT would certainly prepare all kinds of her needs for her departure. "We will certainly take into administrative and operational aspects up to the guarantee of her security into account. But again we stress that she was not send by ACT to Somalia."
The ACT continued gathering information about the kidnapping issue, Ahyudin said.
Aisha was registered as an ACT volunteer in Indonesia. She was involved in some humanitarian actions to relieve victims of natural and social disasters.
Aisha was last reported to be involved in an action with the ACT to help Indonesian migrant workers who were sick after being repatriated from Malaysia in Tanjung Priok Harbor, July 13 2011.
Aisha was once scheduled to go to Somalia with the Indonesian ACTion Team for Somalia on Friday (Aug 19), but she postponed her departure to Somalia due to her marriage and said that she would join the team in Somalia with her own money to travel to that country.
The Indonesian ACTion Team for Somalia is a humanitarian team sent by the Indonesian Committee for Somalian Solidarity (KISS) to help people in that famine-stricken country.
The team was led by Imam Akbari, assisted with the members Andhika Purbo Swasono, dr Adji Suranto Sp.A and dr. Nahdlatul Ulami.
Aisha who is a plastic surgery specialist, told Ahyudin on August 25 that she was on her way, without ACT`s coordination, to Qatar to meet her patient.
She also sent a message through his Blackberry Messenger (BBM) that she had intention to have a private journey to Nairobi and Mogadishu.
On August 29, Aisha sent a message through her BBM that she was still in Qatar, while reserving a ticket for her trip to Nairobi. That was the last contact between ACT and her.
The same report also came from a local guide from Kenya Charles Etoundi who held Aisha`s Blackberry cell phone.
The report on Aisha`s kidnapping was also disseminated in the social media Twitter through a mention for @ACT for humanity.
Some report said that Aisha was found in Rwanda, South Africa and some said Aisha was already in Qatar and would be brought back to Indonesia. The truth of the reports still need to be further studied. (*)
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Editor: Jafar M Sidik
Copyright © ANTARA 2011
