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114 Indonesian nationals arrive in Jakarta after surviving Turkey earthquake
The Soekarno-Hatta Aiport Police chief Sr. Comr. Roberto Pasaribu said that 114 Indonesian nationals, including children and college students, arrived on a Garuda Indonesia flight on Thursday under the coordination of the Foreign Ministry’s director for Indonesian citizen protection Judha Nugraha.
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Indonesian nationals arriving from Turkey wait for their belongings at the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Banten on Feb. 23. (The Jakarta Post/Soekarno-Hatta Airport Police)
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ozens of Indonesian nationals who survived the 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Turkey arrived home late last week at the Soekarno-Hatta International Aiport in Banten.
The Soekarno-Hatta Aiport Police chief Sr. Comr. Roberto Pasaribu said that 114 Indonesian nationals, including children and college students, arrived on a Garuda Indonesia flight on Feb. 23 under the coordination of the Foreign Ministry’s director for Indonesian citizen protection Judha Nugraha.
Also repatriated with the earthquake survivors were the remains of two Indonesian nationals who died in the Feb. 6 earthquake, who were identified as Irma Lestari, a native of Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, and Ni Wayan Supini from Denpasar, Bali.
Roberto said that the remains of the two Indonesian nationals were immediately flown to Lombok and Denpasar on Friday last week.
“We express our deepest condolences to the deceased and our hearts are with everyone who was impacted by the disaster,” Roberto said in a statement.
The death toll from the Turkey quake, as well as a series of aftershocks, that struck in the dead of the night on Feb. 6, rose to 44,128, with the overall number of deaths in Turkey and neighboring Syria to more than 50,000.
More than 160,000 buildings containing 520,000 apartments collapsed or were severely damaged in Turkey by the disaster, the worst in the country's modern history.
