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149154
Mon, 11/08/2010 - 09:59
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401 STRANDED MALAYSIAS RETURN HOME
PETALING JAYA (Malaysia), Nov 8 (Bernama) -- Four hundred and one Malaysians who were stranded in Yogyakarta, Solo, following the volcanic eruption of Gunung Merapi returned here Sunday night.
They arrived at separate times on board three Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) C-130 aircraft at the Subang RMAF Base, near here. The first aircraft landed at 8pm.
The Director of the Malaysian Students Department in Indonesia, Dr Junaidy Abu
Bakar, said Malaysians who were still stranded in Yogyakarta would be brought
home using the same aircraft.
"At 10.30 this morning, I and 25 others from the various agencies had gone to Solo on a C-130 aircraft and we eventually succeeded in bringing home 401 Malaysians," he told reporters shortly upon arrival here.
He said there were 42 students at a religious school in Magelan, Yogyakarta who had decided not to return to Malaysia and instead requested to be sent to
Jakarta.
"They had asked us to to send them to Jakarta this is because their religious school has a branch there," he said.
Junaidy said there were still about 38 clinical students in Yogyakarta because they were assisting victims of the volcanic eruption.
If they wished to return home, the Malaysian government would arrange for their return trip home, he said.
In addition, he said several Malaysian embassy officials were still in Yogyakarta to monitor the situation there.
They arrived at separate times on board three Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) C-130 aircraft at the Subang RMAF Base, near here. The first aircraft landed at 8pm.
The Director of the Malaysian Students Department in Indonesia, Dr Junaidy Abu
Bakar, said Malaysians who were still stranded in Yogyakarta would be brought
home using the same aircraft.
"At 10.30 this morning, I and 25 others from the various agencies had gone to Solo on a C-130 aircraft and we eventually succeeded in bringing home 401 Malaysians," he told reporters shortly upon arrival here.
He said there were 42 students at a religious school in Magelan, Yogyakarta who had decided not to return to Malaysia and instead requested to be sent to
Jakarta.
"They had asked us to to send them to Jakarta this is because their religious school has a branch there," he said.
Junaidy said there were still about 38 clinical students in Yogyakarta because they were assisting victims of the volcanic eruption.
If they wished to return home, the Malaysian government would arrange for their return trip home, he said.
In addition, he said several Malaysian embassy officials were still in Yogyakarta to monitor the situation there.
