28 Students From NTB Stuck In The Battlefield Of Sudan, Provincial Government Opens The Pengadua Command Post

The ship carrying refugees from Sudan arrived in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (Twitter-@ForeignOfficePk)

NTB - The Provincial Government of West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) continues to coordinate with the central government through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Kemenlu) for the evacuation process of dozens of students from NTB in Sudan.

"Our coordination with the center never stops, we have even ordered the NTB Education and Culture Office together with Brida NTB to continue to coordinate with the center through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs," he said in Mataram, NTB, Wednesday, April 26, which was confiscated by Antara.

According to the Regional Secretary, what the Provincial Government did was basically the same when an earthquake occurred in Turkey a few months ago.

Where the NTB Provincial Government at that time opened a complaint post, this time it was the same so that it could make it easier for people who want to find out their family's information in Sudan.

"So what we did during the Turkish earthquake, we also did for Sudan. In the past with the Manpower and Transmigration Office because it was related to our PMI and the NTB BPBD regarding disasters, this time we asked for Dikbud and Brida," he explained.

However, the NTB Regional Secretary continued, considering that this issue is a relationship between countries, his party has fully handed over to the central government.

"The point is that we are in the area of evacuation issues to the central government," he said.

It was reported that 28 students from NTB were in war areas between military forces and the Rappid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary in the capital Khartoum Sudan.

Previously, the government rescued 542 Indonesian citizens (WNI) in the first phase of the evacuation from Sudan, which has been hit by military conflicts since April 15.

"A total of 542 Indonesian citizens are on their way from Port Sudan to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia," said Director of Protection for Indonesian Citizens and BHI of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Judha Nugraha via text message, Tuesday, April 25.

He revealed that Jeddah would be a shelter for Indonesian citizens who were evacuated from Sudan before they were flown to the country.

The number of Indonesian citizens evacuated in the first phase is known to have increased from 538 people, according to the figure announced by the Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi on Monday, April 24, to 542 people.

Judha explained that the additional figures were Indonesian students who joined the Indonesian Embassy team Khartoum and other Indonesian citizens in the Port Sudan through other routes.