A Contingency Plan Has Been Prepared Ambassador Fadjroel And The Ministry Of Foreign Affairs Face The Kazakhstan Situation

JAKARTA - The political situation in Kazakhstan is still heating up. The Indonesian Ambassador to Kazakhstan and the Republic of Tajikistan, Fadjroel Rachman, has coordinated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to prepare a plan to deal with the worst situation in Kazakhstan.

"This morning we have coordinated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and prepared all plans up to the contingency plan stage to deal with emergencies", said Fadjroel through a video recording uploaded to his social media account, Friday, January 7.

The good news is that all Indonesian citizens in all areas of their authority are healthy and safe.

"There are 141 Indonesian citizens in the Republic of Kazakhstan and there are 3 people in the Republic of Tajikistan, to this day the Indonesian Embassy in Nur Sultan guarantees and informs families in Indonesia that their condition is healthy, safe and the Indonesian Embassy in Sultan is ready to serve, serve and serve them during this State of Emergency", said Fadjroel.

The Indonesian Embassy in Kazakhstan continues to monitor Indonesian citizens in the country, following the emergency status imposed by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev regarding large-scale protests in the country. The local government imposed a curfew.

Fadjroel said, most Indonesian citizens are in the City of Nur-Sultan. And all Indonesian citizens already have coordinators.

He said all the Indonesian citizens had joined in one group on the short message application, which also included representatives of the Indonesian Embassy to facilitate communication.

President Joko Widodo ordered that people's safety be ensured and Foreign Minister, Retno Marsudi, asked the Indonesian Embassy in Nur-Sultan to open a hotline 24 hours a day and seven days a week.

Kazakhstan's president announced on Friday he had ordered his troops to fire on the spot in response to harassment by what he called bandits and terrorists, a day after Russia sent troops to crush insurgencies across the country.

Security forces slowly took control of the streets of the main city of Almaty on Friday morning, but gunfire was still heard after days of unrest in which dozens of people were killed and public buildings searched and torched.

"The militants have not laid down their weapons, they continue to commit crimes or are preparing for it. The war against them must be fought to the end. Anyone who does not surrender will be crushed", President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said in a televised broadcast, citing Reuters on January 7.

"I have given orders to law enforcement agencies and soldiers to shoot to kill without warning", he stressed.

Tokayev blamed foreign-trained terrorists for the worst violence in the Central Asian country's 30 years of independence.