JAKARTA (AFP) - Four foreigners feared missing in Indonesia have been found safe in Singapore, Indonesian police said Wednesday.
Police had been investigating reports that the four -- an American, Singaporean, Japanese and one other national -- had gone missing from Indonesia's second largest city of Surabaya.
"The news is false... The four missing people are now in Singapore," said East Java police spokeswoman Puji Hastuti.
She said they were facing a "legal process" there but did not elaborate.
A woman identified as "Agnes" had reported them missing but police were unable to track her down at her reported address to find out her motive for misleading them, she said.
Earlier Indonesia's foreign ministry spokesman Kristiarto Legowo had told AFP that police were investigating reports that the four language school workers may have gone missing.
A Japanese foreign ministry official in Tokyo had said there were concerns the four may have been kidnapped.
Islamic militants in the past have targeted Westerners in bombings in Indonesia, but kidnappings of Westerners have not occurred in the world's most populous Muslim nation.