More than two months since the swine flu outbreak began in Mexico, Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari confirmed on Wednesday that Indonesia had its first cases.  Siti told a news conference that six Indonesians had contracted the H1N1 influenza virus, but five of them were overseas — including a health official sent to China on a fact-finding mission on the outbreak of the disease. The sixth case is a pilot now hospitalized in Jakarta. In Bali, a British tourist has also been confirmed as infected. 

Of the five Indonesians who tested positive abroad, three are in Singapore and one in Australia. The health official remains in Beijing, where she is being treated. Another Indonesian in Macau and another tourist in Bali are also both in the hospital with suspected swine flu. The World Health Organization says that as of Wednesday, 102 countries have officially reported 55,620 cases of swine flu, including 238 deaths, 90 percent of which are in Mexico.