By “Not yet. Just now I was making another call. I asked about their plan and (they said) there is no plan yet. Hopefully, conditions will improve, and the weather will not get hotter,” Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said at the Merdeka Palace here on Sunday.
Marsudi explained that the Foreign Ministry’s officials continued to communicate with the Indonesian Embassy (KBRI) in Seoul whose staff had visited the Jamboree location several times, in SaeManGeum, South Korea.
Based on information from the Indonesian Embassy in Seoul, the 1,500 scouts were in good condition.
Marsudi said the scouts’ event is struggling with the hot weather.
“We should be thankful that most of them (Indonesian scouts) are in good condition,” she said.
Based on information sourced from YONHAP on Wednesday (August 2), South Korean authorities said that 23 people had died from the summer’s heat wave, which tripled from last year’s figure.
The South Korean Government has raised its heatwave warning to “serious”.
The country’s fire department reported that some 21 people in South Korea died of presumed heat-related illnesses between May 20 and the end of July. Two additional deaths were reported on Tuesday (August 1).
Earlier, on Sunday (July 30), Indonesian Ambassador to South Korea Gandi Sulistiyanto warmly welcomed the arrival of the Indonesian scouts and hoped they could gain new experiences and insights from the World Jamboree.
He hoped the event could prepare them to become future leaders in various fields, both domestically and internationally.
“The World Jamboree is an opportunity for the youth to develop networking and friendship with citizens of other countries,” Sulistiyanto said.
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