Nugraha, director of the Civil Protection Bureau of the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told the media recently that the Indonesian government is drawing up an emergency contingency plan for the 350,000 Indonesians in Taiwan, including how to evacuate Indonesian citizens from Taiwan and neighboring countries, and predicting the future of Taiwan. possible situation.
Indonesia“Compass”According to a report on the 14th, Judha Nugraha, director of the Civil Protection Bureau of the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that the government is continuously monitoring the development of Taiwan, and said: “In order to predict various possibilities, we have cooperated with the Indonesian Economic and Trade Representative Office in Taipei to prepare What a contingency plan.”
According to the report, Indonesia is very concerned about the stability of the Taiwan Strait, because there are currently 350,000 Indonesian citizens living in Taiwan, mainly migrant workers in factories and fishing boats, which is also the main reason for preparing emergency contingency plans.
In addition, the report also pointed out that there are at least 500,000 Indonesian citizens living in East Asian countries, including Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea. Therefore, if a war breaks out in Taiwan and its surrounding areas, the evacuation work will be very complicated.
According to reports, it will take about a month to evacuate 1,000 Indians from Ukraine in 2022, and Ukraine has many options for evacuating Indonesian citizens, but Taiwan is an island, and the only transportation is by sea or air, but in various Chinese military exercises, But they always practice how to encircle Taiwan and cut off the sea and air traffic entering and leaving Taiwan.
In the past two weeks, the Indonesian media has paid considerable attention to the rising situation in the Taiwan Strait. The report of “Compass Daily” also briefly described the recent situation in the Taiwan Strait, saying that “the geopolitical situation around Taiwan has not eased. Japan holds its annual Balikatan military exercise in southern Taiwan.”
The report also quoted Yuyun Wahyuningrum, an Indonesian representative from the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR), as saying that it is the responsibility of the government to evacuate the citizens of the country, and the governments of ASEAN member states have the right to evacuate their citizens. My own assessment is that there has not been a large-scale evacuation in Myanmar, unlike the Russo-Ukrainian war or the outbreak of COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) in China.
Yu Yun pointed out that the ASEAN Association continues to work hard to protect migrant workers, and is currently preparing two declarations on the protection of migrant workers. The first is to protect migrant workers when a crisis breaks out, and the second is to protect fishing workers.
The ASEAN Intergovernmental Human Rights Committee has discussed the relevant declaration and hopes to submit it to the ASEAN summit in May. Yu Yun believes that it is necessary to define the crisis mentioned in the declaration, such as “Can the situation in Taiwan be considered a crisis?” This question must be answered, so that the work of protecting migrant workers can be done well.
In addition, the report also pointed out that the waters and airspace around Taiwan are also very important to Indonesia’s economy. If a war breaks out, the export of about US$83 billion may also be interrupted. The value of Indonesia’s exports in the region in 2021 is equivalent to 7% of Indonesia’s GDP.
According to the report, apart from Southeast Asia, the intermediate ports of Indonesian exports are located in China and South Korea. If there is a war or the situation heats up around Taiwan, many direct and indirect exports will be difficult to transport.
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