Indonesia to accept dozens of Rohingya refugees stranded at sea
2021-12-30 10:03:57 source：The Aljazeera
December 29, 2021
Indonesia has announced it will allow a boat packed with Rohingya refugees, which had become stranded off its coast, to dock after calls from aid organisations to allow the vessel to seek refuge.
Local officials in Aceh, a province on the western island of Sumatra, had said on Tuesday that they would provide the roughly 120 passengers on board with food, medicine and water, but would not allow them to seek refuge in the Southeast Asian country, despite international pleas to do so.
“Today, the Indonesian government decided, in the name of humanity, to give refuge to Rohingya refugees currently afloat on a boat near Biereun district, Aceh,” Armed Wijaya, an official at Indonesia’s chief security ministry, said in a statement on Wednesday.
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