JAKARTA - 80 Indonesian citizens and three foreigners who were successfully evacuated from Ukraine arrived safely in Jakarta, Thursday, March 3. They were flown by special Garuda Indonesia flight GA 7720 from Henri Coand International Airport, Romania under a tight guard by Indonesian Air Force special forces.

The Indonesian Air Force was indeed part of the team that was dispatched to Romania to repatriate Indonesian citizens to their homeland. Apart from them, there was also a team from BIN who flew with them.

The pick-up team departs for Bucharest on Tuesday 2 March at 18.40 WIB. Arrive at Henri Coandă International Airport, Romania March 3 at 15:10 local time.

Then this plane flew back to Indonesia at 20:23 local time. So it was only 5.5 hours that the Garuda Indonesia plane was at Henri Coand International Airport and immediately took off when all the passengers had boarded the plane.

On the way home, this plane took the route from Bucharest - Medina - Jakarta with a travel time of 17 hours. This plane carrying 80 Indonesian citizens and three foreigners who are part of the Indonesian citizen's family landed safely.

Inside the plane, there was also a Satbravo 90 Kopasgat soldier. On the orders of the TNI Commander General Andika Perkasa and the instructions of the Upper Command Colonel Pas Dedy Agung Sulistya, immediately dispatched 9 Satbravo Soldiers 90 trained Kopasgat led by Major Pas Efendi H as Dansatgas Pam for the Evacuation of Indonesian Citizens.

This operation is not the first operation carried out by Satbravo 90 Kopasgat. Previously, the Satbravo 90 Kopasgat had also succeeded in carrying out evacuation operations for Indonesian citizens in Afghanistan.

Procedurally, the process of implementing the Evacuation or Non-combatant Evacuation Operations Procedure is the result of a recommendation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs which is forwarded to the Ministry of Defense and the TNI to coordinate the evacuation plan with the relevant agencies.


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