Jakarta to reopen embassy in Kabul

Jakarta to reopen embassy in Kabul

Agence France-Presse Jakarta

Indonesia plans soon to reopen its embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul after evacuating its staff in 1996, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday.

Wahid Supriyadi said no date had yet been set as the personnel were still being prepared.

He said the last Indonesian embassy staff were evacuated from Kabul in 1996. Jakarta was then represented first by its mission in India and since 1998 by the embassy in Pakistan.

A 1992-1996 civil war, which ended with the Taliban's capture of the capital, reduced large parts of the city to rubble.

Since the Taliban's fall and the installation of an interim government, several other embassies have reopened. --AFP