UF President Bernie Machen's trip to Indonesia later this month is still on the schedule despite Friday's attacks at two luxury hotels in the country's capital of Jakarta.
Eight people died and more than 50 were injured, including eight Americans, in the suicide bomb attacks at the JW Marriott and the Ritz-Carlton hotels, according to The New York Times, but it is unclear who is behind the attacks.
Machen and a delegation of officials from U.S. universities and colleges are scheduled to visit a handful of Indonesian cities, including the capital Jakarta, from Sunday to Aug. 1.
"We're monitoring the situation and waiting to hear from the organization planning the trip," UF spokeswoman Janine Sikes said Friday.
Terance Bigalke, director of education at the East-West Center, which organized the trip, said the trip will happen as planned, though one university official has dropped out.
He said the official's decision likely had something to do with Friday's attacks.
But officials from two other universities recently requested to be included in the delegation, he said.
Hotel arrangements are being made by the Indonesian government, and delegation members wouldn't stay at American hotels, he said. No lodging arrangements have been changed as a result of the attacks.
About 20 universities, university systems and colleges in the United States will be represented on the trip.
