Kemlu Bantu Pencarian Ahmad Munasir, Lecturer Of UII Yogyakarta Who Lost Contacts In Norway

Ahmad Munasir Rafie Pratama, a lecturer who was reported missing contact after attending global mobility activities at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN). (ANTARA/HO-Humas UII)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in coordination with Indonesian representatives in Turkey, has moved to seek information from local authorities to search for Ahmad Munasir Rafie Pratama (AMRP), a lecturer at the Islamic University of Indonesia (UII) Yogyakarta who reportedly lost contact. According to the Director of Protection for Indonesian Citizens and BHI of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Judha Nugraha, all information developments obtained have been conveyed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the UII Chancellor and General Chairperson of Muhammadiyah, to then be submitted to the family. "Untuk menghormati privasi dan atas permintaan keluarga, informasi hanya disampaikan kepada pihak keluarga melalui Rektor UII,” kata Judha melalui pesan singkat pada Minggu, 19 Februari dilansir dari Antara. He emphasized that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Indonesian Embassy in Ankara and the Indonesian Consulate General in Istanbul are ready to provide further assistance if necessary by the family and UII. Previously, Ahmad Munasir traveled to Oslo, Norway, on February 4, 2023, in the context of campus duties to participate in global mobility activities at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) in Norway. Munasir was supposed to return February 12 via Istanbul on a Turkish Airlines flight and landed at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on Thursday, February 16 at 18:00 WIB. The Lecturer of Informatics at the Faculty of Informatics Engineering UII was reported to have lost contact after last communicating with his wife on Sunday afternoon (12/2) on his way home. Munasir was known to be at Oslo Airport at that time. The Yogyakarta UII Crisis Center team has conducted a digital footprint excavation and confirmed that Ahmad Munasir has left Oslo, Norway and is in Istanbul, Turkey. UII Chancellor Fathul Wahid said that apart from recording the "sign out google drive" activity that occurred on February 13, 2023 at 03:57 local time, the UII Crisis Center Team also found other digital traces. "AMRP was connected to the internet via the Virtual Private Network eduVPN connection which leads to the UII campus. The access location is around Istanbul, at around 19:00-2-3:00 local time on February 12, 2023," said Fathul Wahid in his statement, Saturday (18/2). According to him, the information received from the Indonesian Embassy in Oslo confirmed the findings of the digital footprint. The police in Oslo confirmed that the immigration records at Oslo Airport showed that Ahmad Munasir was no longer in the Schengen area on February 12, 2023.