INDONESIA: About 140 poor and hungry Rohingya Muslims, mostly women and children, were on a wooden ship anchored about 1 hour off the beach of Indonesia’s northern county of Aceh on Tuesday, authorities said, and nearby residents refused to allow them onto area.
The boat with the blue paint has been floatoff the seacoast since Friday. Local authorities reported that three Rohingya died on the nearly two-week journey from Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh to the waterways off Labuhan Haji in South Aceh area.
Since Sunday, officials have moved 11 Rohingya to a government hospital because their condition has gotten worse.
” Our neighborhood, the hunting community, refuses to let them get because of what happened in other areas. They have caused unrest to nearby people”, said Muhammad Jabal, the captain of the fish area in South Aceh.
The people of South Aceh Regency reject the appearance of Rohingya immigrants in the South Aceh Regency area, according to a significant symbol that was hung at the port.
The team left Cox’s Bazar on October 9, according to an Aceh police document, and intended to reach Malaysia. Some passengers on board the ship apparently paid for transportation to other nations.
According to Jabal, local people have provided the team with food, and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has also given them foods.
There were 216 people on board when the ship departed Bangladesh and 50 of them apparently disembarked in Indonesia’s Riau state, according to authorities.
Three people have been detained by Aceh authorities for alleged people contraband.
About 1 million of the predominately Muslim Rohingya are immigrants from Myanmar in Bangladesh. They include about 740, 000 who fled a terrible combat campaign in 2017 by Myanmar’s security forces, who were accused of committing large murders and deaths.
The Rohingya minority in Myanmar faces pervasive discrimination. Most are denied membership.
Indonesia, like Thailand and Malaysia, is not a member to the United Nations ‘ 1951 Refugee Convention and is not obligated to accept them. Yet, the country usually provides temporary sanctuary to migrants in distress.
Off the coast of Aceh, Indonesian authorities and local fishermen rescued 75 individuals from a ship that had flipped over in March. Another 67 people, including at least 28 youngsters, had been killed when the ship capsized, according to the UNHCR. Before the ship capsized, the captain and crew reportedly tortured women and girls.
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