 Two reporters working for an Indonesian television station are missing in Iraq , a foreign ministry spokesman said Friday.
The reporters, working for Indonesia's Metro TV, went missing Tuesday, and a witness said he saw their car stopped near the Iraqi town of Ramadi by armed men in military uniforms, spokesman Marty Natalegawa said. Indonesia's government plans to send a team to Iraq to seek additional information, he said.
Ramadi, about 70 miles west of Baghdad, has been a center of insurgent activity in Iraq and the scene of frequent clashes between U.S. forces, their Iraqi allies and militants.
"We are trying to ascertain the whereabouts of these two reporters and establish contact with them," Natalegawa said. "It was reported that the people who stopped them were wearing Iraqi military uniforms."
The Al-Arabiya television station, the Arabic-language satellite network, reported that the two journalists were kidnapped but did not provide any further details.
Sasha Yusharyahya, a spokeswoman for Metro TV, identified the reporter as Meutya Hafid and the cameraman as Budianto. She said the station last had contact with the pair on Tuesday afternoon and that they have been in Iraq since Jan. 31.
More than 190 foreigners have been abducted in Iraq in the past year. At least 13 foreigners remain in the hands of their captors, more than 30 were killed and the rest were freed or escaped.
The last journalist kidnapped in Iraq was Giuliana Sgrena, an Italian reporter who was abducted on Feb. 4 in broad daylight by gunmen in Baghdad. She appeared in a video delivered anonymously to Associated Press Television News on Wednesday begging for her life and warning foreigners — including journalists — to leave the country. (source AP) 
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