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Rescuers Find Missing Indonesian Family in Quake Hit Japan
Ismira Lutfia | March 21, 2011

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An Indonesian search-and-rescue team deployed to Japan’s quake-hit Miyagi prefecture has successfully located an Indonesian woman and her four children, the Foreign Affairs Ministry confirmed.

Ministry spokeswoman Kusuma Habir told the Jakarta Globe on Sunday that the family members, who had been listed as missing after the massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan’s northeast, would soon be evacuated to Tokyo.

Fifteen search-and-rescue experts, soldiers and physicians arrived in Japan on Friday to help find and evacuate Indonesians affected by the disasters.

The team is based in the city of Ichinoseki, Iwate prefecture, and is combing relocation shelters to find missing Indonesians.

“We hope the team will help to locate more Indonesians who still remained unaccounted for,” Kusuma said.

She said some 30 Indonesians were taking shelter at the Indonesian International School in Tokyo while 196 others had already returned home. The latest batch of 35 evacuees arrived in Jakarta on Saturday night.

Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said on Saturday that the government would assist evacuees to continue their journeys to their hometowns.

As of Saturday, 100 of the 502 Indonesians registered in the affected areas were still unaccounted for, while the remainder had been relocated to safer areas.

Marty also said the government had “unilaterally decided” to evacuate the 82 Indonesians registered as living within a 50-kilometer radius from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. That is wider than the 20-kilometer safety zone imposed by the Japanese government after explosions at the plant released radiation and sparked fears of a meltdown.