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VIVAnews-Foreign Ministry spokesman, Teuku Faizasyah said there was no Indonesian citizen residing in Ship Rachel Corrie - who failed to Gaza due to Israeli military occupation.

"We already check to the Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Aman-Jordan confirmed there was no volunteer citizen residing in the vessel," said Teuku Faizasyah, when contacted VIVAnews, Saturday, May 5, 2010.

But the Foreign Ministry will also continue to seek information, including whether there Ship Crew (ABK), which participated in the ship.

"Information Securely from Kuala Lumpur and no citizen volunteers, but if there was a crew from Indonesia that we try to go through," he said.

Rachel Corrie ship expected to arrive in Gaza today. In fact, the ship was carrying about 750 tons of aid, including medicines for cancer patients - who like to wait to die in Gaza due to not getting adequate care. Cancer patients was also barred from leaving Gaza.

Rachel Corrie also ship transporting building materials, paper, school supplies, and other supplies.

The Israeli army occupied the ship Rachel Corrie, the reason, because the crew refused orders to direct the vessel to the port of Ashdod, Israel.

The Israeli military claims to allow the crew MV Rachel Corrie Irish Israeli soldiers boarded the vessel.

Gaza mission ship was named Rachel Corrie - an American humanitarian activist - who died in 2003. Corrie over by a bulldozer about to destroy the Israeli settlement of the Palestinian population.