Pro-democracy protesters have refused to back down in spite of the military junta’s increasing use of force in recent weeks, less than two months since the military coup ousted Myanmar’s democratically elected civilian government and its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.

Nevertheless, the Foreign Ministry’s citizen protection director, Judha Nugraha, has insisted that current conditions are relatively safe for Indonesian residents in Myanmar.

“There may have been several demonstrations and the imposition of martial law in several areas where [Indonesian citizens] live, but there have been no direct attacks on Indonesian citizens,” Judha said on Monday after a meeting with Indonesian diaspora and officials from the Indonesian Embassy in Yangon.

Myanmar state broadcaster MRTV has announced that martial law was imposed in parts of Yangon, which means that military commanders in the country’s main commercial hub have taken over district administration, including the courts.

Judha said that evacuation was not an urgent need at present, but he also advised that Indonesians without essential purposes should consider repatriating on the relief flights operated by Singapore Airlines and Myanmar Airlines.

“Currently, about 50 Indonesian citizens have returned home using the relief flights,” he said in a statement released on Tuesday.

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