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AFRICAN REFUGEES IN INDONESIA: AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE

June 7, 2010

in News,Southeast Asia

by Savitri Taylor The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) Indonesia is working alongside its partner organisations to ensure the wellbeing of African refugees and asylum seekers in Indonesia, writes Savitri Taylor. But do the displaced receive the support they need and do they have reason to be optimistic about their future stability? Read more >>>>

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Refugees nearing 150 days at sea

17 February 2010

254 Sri Lankan Tamil-speaking refugees have been trapped on a tiny boat in the port of Merak in Indonesia. It will be 150 days on march 10th. Currently No humanitarian agencies apart from the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) are allowed to visit the boat. The IOM, which gets $12 million a year from the [...]

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Refugee Council of Australia: Australia cannot watch idly while asylum seekers face return to Sri Lanka

17 November 2009

The Australian Government cannot remain a passive bystander while asylum seekers on the Merak boat face the risk of return to Sri Lanka, the Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) says. RCOA president John Gibson said the organisation was alarmed by media reports that the Indonesian Government was considering returning asylum seekers whose claims were yet to be examined.

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Joint Statement on the Treatment of Rohingya and Bangladeshi ‘Boat People’ in Asia

6 February 2009

We, the undersigned organisations, are extremely concerned about the treatment of over a thousand Rohingyas from Burma and migrants from Bangladesh who have been forcibly expelled and abandoned in international waters by the Thai security forces since December 2008. Over the past few weeks, several boats have been rescued off the coasts of Indonesia and [...]

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