Jakarta. The government confirmed Monday that no Indonesians were harmed in the massive fire that engulfed a settlement in Malaysia’s Sabah over the weekend.

Heni Hamidah, the citizen protection director at the Foreign Affairs Ministry, told the Jakarta Globe that no death had been reported.

The government is still calculating how many Indonesians live in the affected settlement.

“As many as 1,000 houses out of the 1,200 units in that settlement caught fire. Some residents sustain minor wounds when trying to save their belongings from the blaze, but they have received medical treatment,” Heni told the Globe via text.

“Most of the residents are Malaysians, Filipinos, and Indonesians who are married to Malaysians,” Heni said.

Heni went on to say that the government would “prepare immigration documents for affected Indonesians who lost important documents in the blaze”. A fire tore through a coastal village in Kampung Bahagia, which lies in Sabah's Sandakan district, on Sunday morning. The site is mostly made up of closely packed, wooden stilt houses.

“The victims who needed assistance had been accommodated in shelters,” the diplomat said.

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said over the weekend that the government’s current priority was to ensure “the victims’ safety as well as immediate on-site assistance”. Authorities reported that the fire had displaced over 9,000 people.

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