Five Volunteers to Arrive in Jakarta

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Five Indonesian volunteers who escaped  the May 31 Israeli attack on the Turkish aid ship Mavi Marmara are scheduled to arrive at Soekarno-Hatta Airport on Monday. Four of the volunteers will arrive at the airport at 3.15 p.m. by an Emirate flight, the Indonesian Foreign Ministry said in its official website on Sunday.

The four are H. Ferry Nur S.Si, chief of the Indonesian Committee for Palestinian Solidarity (KISPA), Muhendri Muchtar, KISPA deputy chief, Hardjito Warno, KISPA member, and Muhammad Yasin, TV One journalist. They will be accompanied by Indonesian Ambassador to Jordan Zaenul Bahar Noor.      Another Indonesian volunteer, Okvianto Baharudin, who suffers shot wounds will arrive at the airport at 1.15 p.m. by a Singapore Airline flight from Istanbul, Turkey. He will be accompanied by dr. Mustafa Uner Karacaoglu of Turkey and the Indonesian ambassador to Turkey.   Oktavianto has earlier been treated at Bagcilar Devlet Hastanesi hospital in Istanbul. Shortly after he arrives at the airport he will undergo a further medical checkup by a team of doctors from the health ministry. Meanwhile, Surya Fachrizal, another Indonesian volunteer of the Friends of Al Aqsa organization, arrived in Amman on Sunday with the help of the Indonesian embassy in Amman and the Jordanian government after undergoing a surgery to take a bullet out of his chest at Ramban Hospital in Haifa City, Israel.

Surya will later be treated at the Jordan Royal Medical Services (King Hussein Medical Center), accompanied by staffers of the embassy  and Dzikrullah Wisnu Pramudya and Santi Soekanto of the Friends of Al Aqsa organization. Four volunteers of the Medical Emergency Rescue Committee (MER-C) -- Nur Fitri Moeslim Taher (chief of MER-C team), and Arief Rachman, Abdillah Onim, and Nur Ikhwan Abadi, all MER-C team members-- are still in Amman.      Mavi Marmara was among a convoy of six ships attempting to ferry relief supplies to the Gaza Strip when it was attacked by the Israeli navy last Monday. Twelve Indonesians were on board the ship. Reports from various sources said nine people were killed and more than 30 others injured in the attack.