JAKARTA, Jun 24, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Indonesian police and military will escort foreign aid workers in carrying out their relief work in the tsunami-hit and rebellious Aceh Province, police chief General Da 'i Bachtiar said Friday.
The police chief promised to prepare personnel to help the volunteers and urged the aid workers to coordinate with security authorities in the restive province of Aceh.
"At least, please make communication with us, we will guard," Bachtiar was quoted by the Tempo Interactive Website as saying.
The statement was made in the wake of the shooting of Hong Kong aid worker Eva Yeung, 28, in an ambush allegedly conducted by 12 members of separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) during her travel in Aceh's Jaya Regency on Wednesday.
The aid worker, who worked for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent, was sent to Singapore for treatment Thursday and doctors there successfully removed bullet fragments from her neck on Friday.
The shooting was the first involving a foreigner in Aceh since the tsunami hit the area on Dec. 26 last year, and the police chief warned that many areas in the province are not safe and the GAM rebel may conduct attack at any time.