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akarta: Foreign Ministry spokesman Michael Tene has confirmed that five Indonesian students have arrived home safely from Yemen after being evacuated from the conflict-stricken nation.

“Five Indonesian citizens have returned from Yemen and were reunited with their families on Wednesday,” he said Friday, as quoted by tribunnews.com.

He explained that there had initially been six students willing to return to Indonesia, but one of them changed his mind and decided to stay at his boarding school in Sanaah Province.

“Of the six, one wanted to stay in Yemen for various reasons,” he said.

A number of people, including two Indonesian students, were killed recently as a result of the armed conflict between the Yemeni government and opposition forces. Muhammad Soleh Bin Syamsul Bahri from Medan and Jamiri Abdullah from Aceh were buried at the Darul Hadits school compound.

The Indonesian government has called on its citizens in Yemen to leave the country as a safety precaution.

There are approximately 2,300 Indonesians in Yemen, most of whom live in Hadramaut in the east of the country, which is reportedly safer.