Rohingya refugee landing in Aceh dies of respiratory illness

THE JAKARTAPOST
News Desk
The Jakarta Post
Jakarta / Thu, September 10, 2020

Ninety-four Rohingya refugees, comprising 15 men, 49 women and 30 children, were found stranded on a boat 4 miles from the coast of Seunuddon in North Aceh regency, Aceh, on June 24. (Antara/Nova Wahyudi)

Midshalimah, 21, a Rohingya refugee who was among hundreds who arrived in Aceh early on Monday, has reportedly died from some form of respiratory illness.

Lhokseumawe city public relations head Marzuki said on Wednesday that Midshalimah had complained of shortness of breath upon landing at Ujong Blang Beach in Lhokseumawe just after midnight.

UNHCR grants refugee status to 99 Rohingya migrants in Aceh

ANTARA NEWS
23rd July 2020

Rohingya refugees in Aceh. ANTARA PHOTO/Rahmad/wsj

The UNHCR officials have completed the registration of the 99 Rohingya migrants Jakarta (ANTARA) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)-Indonesia Office officially granted refugee status to 99 Rohingya migrants that three Acehnese fishermen had rescued on humanitarian grounds in June, Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi stated.

"The UNHCR officials have completed the registration of the 99 Rohingya migrants," Marsudi told journalists at a virtual press conference in Jakarta on Thursday.

25 Rohingya children arrived in Aceh without parents: Retno Marsudi

ANTARA NEWS
9th July 2020

Volunteers of the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) in Lhokseumawe, Aceh, distribute basic necessities, such as food and clothes for prayers, to Rohingya refugees. ANTARA/HO-The Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) Public Relations 

" There are 25 children, aged 5-17 years, (who have) arrived without accompanying families in this group"

Jakarta (ANTARA) - Twenty-five Rohingya children, aged between 5 and 17 years, who are currently being sheltered in Aceh arrived without their parents, according to Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi.

"There are 25 children, aged 5-17 years, (who have) arrived without accompanying families in this group," she told the press at the Presidential Palace here on Thursday.

Rescued Rohingya grateful for local support after 120 days stranded at sea

European Commission
ECHO
 3 Jul 2020

 EU partner IOM Indonesia continues to provide round-the-clock care to the 99 Rohingya rescued and allowed to disembark in North Aceh last week after more than 120 days stranded at sea. Concerns are raising about another boat with 500 Rohingya on board, according to authorities in Jakarta.

Malaysian officials have also reported that at least 300 are on a vessel off the Coast of Koh Adang Island in Thailand. No further details are available but roughly, 1,400 Rohingya have been stranded at sea during the 2020 sailing season, which typically ends with the arrival of the monsoon in late May. At least 130 have died according to various estimates.

ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ၁၀၀ နီးပါးပါ စက်လှေတစင်း Aceh ကမ်းလွန် ပင်လယ်တွင်းမျောနေ

 VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
24 ဇွန်၊ 2020

အင်ဒိုနီးရှားနိုင်ငံ Aceh ဒေသ ကမ်းလွန်ပင်လယ်ပြင်မှာ စက်လှေတစင်းနဲ့အတူ တွေ့ရတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာမွတ်ဆလင်များ။ (ဇွန် ၂၄၊ ၂၀၂၀)

အင်ဒိုနီးရှားနိုင်ငံ Aceh ဒေသ ကမ်းလွန်ပင်လယ်ပြင်မှာ ရိုဟင်ဂျာမွတ်ဆလင် ၁၀၀ လောက် လိုက်ပါလာတဲ့ စက်လှေတစင်း မျောနေတာကို ငါးဖမ်းလှေတွေက တွေ့ရှိခဲ့ကြပြီး အခုအခါ ကမ်းကပ်ခွင့်ရဖို့ စောင့်ဆိုင်းနေ ပါတယ်။