About 250 Rohingya Refugees in Aceh Sent back to sea

The Jakata Post
Friday, November 17, 2023

Newly arrived Rohingya refugees are stranded on a boat after the nearby community decided not to allow them to land after giving them water and food in Pineung, Aceh province on November 16, 2023. (AFP/Amanda Jufrian)

About 250 Rohingya refugees in an overcrowded wooden boat have been turned away from Aceh and sent back to sea, residents said Friday.

Villagers in Indonesia’s Aceh province turn away boat carrying 200-plus Rohingya

Benar News
Pizaro Gozali Idrus
2023.11.16
Jakarta

Rohingya refugees react after reaching the beach by swimming as others are stranded on a boat after villagers decided not to allow them to land but gave them water and food in Bireuen district, Aceh province, Indonesia, Nov. 16, 2023. [Amanda Jufrian/AFP]

 

More than 200 Rohingya reached Indonesia’s Aceh province in a boat on Thursday, bringing the number of new arrivals this week to nearly 600, but villagers in separate locations forced the latest batch to return to sea, officials said.

Third batch of around 200 Rohingya arrive in Indonesia's Aceh

Reuters
November 16, 2023

Rohingya women and children wait to be transported to a temporary shelter, as they arrive in Pidie Regency, Aceh province, Indonesia, November 14, 2023. REUTERS/Riska Munawarah/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights

 

JAKARTA, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Around 200 Rohingya reached the shores of Indonesia's Aceh province on Thursday, the head of the provincial fishing community said, the third boat to arrive in as many days and taking total arrivals over this period to about 600.

Almost 200 Rohingya arrive by boat in Indonesia's Aceh

CNA
14 Nov 2023  

Rohingya refugees walk on a road after they landed on the shores of Indonesia's Aceh province, at a camp in Ladong, Aceh province, Indonesia, on Jan 11, 2023. (Photo: REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan)

JAKARTA: Almost two hundred Rohingya, most of them women and children, arrived by boat at Indonesia's Aceh province on Tuesday (Nov 14), the chief of a local fishing community said, the latest batch of people to have fled Myanmar by boat this year.

About 100 Rohingya arrive by boat in Indonesia's Aceh

dunia news
Tue, 14 Nov 2023 

Rohingya fled a deadly crackdown in 2017 by Myanmar's military and living in neighbouring countries

 

JAKARTA (Reuters) – About one hundred Rohingya landed in Indonesia's Aceh province on Tuesday, the chief of a local fishing community said, the latest batch of people to have fled Myanmar by boat this year.

Almost 200 Rohingya arrive by boat in Indonesia's Aceh

REUTERS

Hidayatullah Tahjuddin
November 14, 2023

JAKARTA, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Almost two hundred Rohingya, most of them women and children, arrived by boat at Indonesia's Aceh province on Tuesday, the chief of a local fishing community said, the latest batch of people to have fled Myanmar by sea this year.

Many members of the ethnic Rohingya Muslims, a persecuted minority in Myanmar, have for years boarded rickety wooden boats to escape to Muslim-majority Bangladesh, Malaysia and Indonesia as well as Thailand.

Southeast Asia fears US neglect, ostracised Muslims and resurgent extremists as Israel-Gaza war rages on

Institute of stragetc & Ineternational Studies
Thomas Daniel,
By Maria Siow and Amy Sood
- 23 October 2023 Related:
Israel, Malaysia, Middle East, Palestine, Southeast Asia

 

• Analysts warn of a spike in Hamas-inspired radicalisation and plummeting interfaith relations as the Middle Eastern conflict continues to escalate
• Washington’s attention, meanwhile, looks set to remain elsewhere due to a fundamental ‘shift of focus’ – unless China ‘does something really drastic’

 

As the civilian death toll from the bloodiest Israel-Gaza conflict in decades climbs ever higher, analysts warn that Asia must be on guard against deep divisions over the war tearing at the region’s social fabric – and the consequences of an increasingly distracted United States turning the bulk of its attention elsewhere.

Bangladesh asks ASEAN to "carry" Rohingya

KOMPAS
FX LAKSANA AGUNG SAPUTRA DARI NEW YORK, AS
23 September 2023 

The fate of the Rohingya ethnic group who were forced to flee Myanmar in 2017 is unclear. The issue is getting deeper and deeper with various recent dynamics. 

KOMPAS/FX LAKSANA AGUNG SAPUTRA

From left to right, Director General of the International Organization for Migration, Antonio Vitorino, President of Timor Leste, Jose Ramos-Horta, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, and Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim AA Khan KC. The meeting discussed the Rohingya issue which was held during the High Level Week of the 78th United Nations General Assembly in New York, United States, on Thursday (21/9/2023).

NEW YORK, KOMPAS - Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged ASEAN to continue prioritizing the Rohingya issue as a significant regional agenda. She encouraged ASEAN to increase efforts to build trust in Myanmar, so that Rohingya ethnic groups could return to their homeland with dignity.

ASEAN completes 11 priority economic deliverables, MITI to continue championing Malaysian exporters’ interests

theSundaily
10-09- 2023 

AFPix

KUALA LUMPUR: ASEAN has completed 11 out of 16 Priority Economic Deliverables (PEDs) under Indonesia’s chairmanship, while five out of seven PEDs under the purview of ASEAN Economic Ministers have been completed, according to the Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry (MITI).

Good reason to tread carefully on Rohingya crisis

Jarkata Post
Tan Hui Yee

15.12.2016

 

 In this May 12 file photo, ethnic Rohingya sit at a refugee camp north of Sittwe, western Rakhine state, Myanmar. The long-persecuted Rohingya, many of whose families arrived in Myanmar generations ago, are treated as illegal migrants from neighboring Bangladesh and virtually excluded from the political process. (AP/Gemunu Amarasinghe )

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak broke with the spirit of Asean camaraderie by joining a recent march protesting against Myanmar's treatment of its beleaguered Rohingya, a Muslim minority group within the predominantly Buddhist country. "We want to tell Aung San Suu Kyi enough is enough!" he told the leader of the fellow Asean member, in reference to alleged atrocities some have condemned as "genocide".

Time Is Running out for Indonesia to Turn the Tide on Myanmar

THE DIPLOMAT
By David Hutt
April 25, 2023 

If Indonesia ends up the steward of ASEAN’s failure over Myanmar, Laos – the next chair – will be the gravedigger.

There are two ways of looking at Indonesia’s handling of the Myanmar crisis during its once-a-decade stint as ASEAN chair. Either Indonesia has been ASEAN chairman for only a few months so shouldn’t be blamed for having, so far, not come up with a meaningful policy on the Myanmar crisis. Or it only has eight months left as the chair and if it fails to devise a policy, the entire ASEAN-led response could crumble when it hands over the chairmanship next year to Laos, which is sure to steer the regional bloc down the path of greater acceptance of Myanmar’s military junta.

Upon the handover, Jakarta needs to have in place more than something resembling a coherent policy toward Myanmar. There needs to be a gift-wrapped policy on which there’s so much accord among member states that Laos cannot walk it back. ASEAN’s policy must be able to sustain itself even when in the hands of the disinterested.

ASEAN's deepening fissures over Myanmar test Indonesia's resolve

NIKKEI ASIA
GWEN ROBINSON,
Nikkei Asia editor-at-large
April 18, 2023 

ASEAN leaders including Myanmar's top general, Min Aung Hlaing, agreed in April 2021 on five steps toward resolving the crisis in the war-torn member state. Only one has been accomplished, and the bloc's unity and credibility are on the line. © Nikkei montage/Source photo by Reuters

Asia In

2023 chair works quietly to overcome two years of Five Point Consensus failure

PHNOM PENH -- Two years after they gathered in Jakarta to forge a consensus on the Myanmar crisis, Association of Southeast Asian Nations leaders have rarely faced such disunity as they prepare for an uneasy summit in Indonesia from May 6 to 10.

In what one regional diplomat described as a "tail wagging the dog" dynamic, the spiraling violence in Myanmar under a savage military regime and determined resistance forces has opened diplomatic and political fault lines while undermining the 10-member group's international image. Other differences -- over attitudes to China and the U.S., or issues such as refugees and human rights -- are also threatening ASEAN unity like never before.

Nearly 200 Rohingya refugees land in western Indonesia after swimming to shore from boat

South China Morning Post
Agence France-Presse
Published: 8:27pm, 27 Mar, 2023

• The refugees, trying to reach Malaysia from Myanmar, said they were dropped offshore and told to swim to land by the boat’s captain
• Thousands of the mostly Rohingya Muslims risk their lives each year on long and expensive sea journeys to reach Malaysia or Indonesia

Ethic Rohingya men rest inside a mosque that is turned into a temporary shelter after they land in Kuala Matang Peulawi, Aceh province, Indonesia on March 27, 2023. Photo: AP

At least 184 Rohingya refugees, including many women and children, landed in Indonesia’s westernmost province on Monday, officials said, after they were dropped at sea by boat and made to swim ashore.

Thousands of the mostly Rohingya Muslims, heavily persecuted in Myanmar, risk their lives each year on long and expensive sea journeys, often in poor-quality boats, in an attempt to reach Malaysia or Indonesia.

Rohingya are drowning at sea. Asia’s leaders are to blameAljazeera

Aljazeera
OPINION,Tun Khin
BROUK
Published On 26 Jan 2023

Leaders from Southeast and South Asia are acting both illegally and immorally by not helping Rohingya “boat people”.

FILE — Rohingya refugees fleeing a genocide in Myanmar and overcrowded conditions in Bangladesh camps, often spend months at sea, exploited by traffickers because governments in South and Southeast Asia won't let their boats land. This photo from June 25, 2020, shows Rohingya refugees in Lhokseumawe in North Aceh Regency [Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP]

 

In early January, a boat with 185 Rohingya refugees washed ashore on the coast of Indonesia’s Aceh province. They had spent weeks at sea in desperate conditions, fleeing cramped and overcrowded camps in Bangladesh in search of a better life. More than half were women and children.

Sadly, they are far from alone. Since November last year, at least three more boats have landed in Aceh after similarly perilous journeys, carrying hundreds of refugees, with at least 20 people dying at sea. According to UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), thousands of Rohingya, including women and children, resorted to perilous boat journeys in 2022.

Rohingya drown, govts fail to act

Bangkok Post

PUBLISHED : 16 JAN 2023

On Jan 8, a boat with 185 Rohingya refugees washed ashore on the coast of Indonesia's Aceh province. They had spent weeks at sea in desperate conditions, fleeing cramped and overcrowded refugee camps in Bangladesh in search of a better life. More than half were women and children.

Sadly, they are far from alone. Just since November last year, at least another three boats have landed in Aceh after similarly perilous journeys, carrying hundreds of refugees, with at least 20 people dying at sea. According to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, thousands of Rohingya women, men and children took to boats just in 2022.

Nearly 200 Rohingya refugees land in Indonesia in latest boat arrival

ARAB NEWS
AFP
January 08, 2023

Rohingya refugees gather upon their arrival by a boat in Lamnga beach, Aceh province on January 8, 2023. (AFP)

• Thousands of the mostly Muslim Rohingya risk their lives each year on long sea journeys in an attempt to reach Malaysia or Indonesia

BANDA ACEH: A wooden boat carrying nearly 200 Rohingya refugees, a majority of them women and children, landed on Indonesia’s western coast on Sunday, police said.
The ship is the fifth boat carrying Rohingya refugees to land in Indonesia since November, according to authorities.

Boat Carrying 184 Rohingya Refugees Lands in Western Indonesia

THE I DIPLOMAT

Sebastian Strangio
January 09, 2023

The leaky wooden vessel is just the latest to reach the shores of Aceh, as more and more refugees undertake the dangerous ocean crossings. 

A wooden boat carrying 184 Rohingya Muslim refugees has landed in western Indonesia after a long and perilous journey from Bangladesh – a sign that last year’s rash of ocean voyages is set to continue into 2023.

According to The Associated Press, the boat touched land at Kuala Gigieng beach in Aceh Besar regency, in Aceh on the western tip of the island of Sumatra, yesterday. The group of 184 people (Reuters reported the total number as 185), which included a pregnant woman and children, reportedly set off from Bangladesh, where the inhabitants were seeking to escape the hardships of the refugee camps around Cox’s Bazar.

Hundreds of Rohingya refugees arrive in Indonesia looking for new opportunities

Global NEWS

The Associated Press 

January 8, 2023

 A second group of Rohingya Muslims arrived in Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh after weeks at sea, officials said Monday. They arrived off Indonesia's coast as another vessel carrying 180 refugees was feared to have sunk – Dec 26, 2022

 

More than 100 weak and hungry Rohingya Muslim refugees were among the latest group to reach ashore in Indonesia on Sunday after a long and dangerous journey aboard a wooden boat.

Boat with 185 Rohingya refugees lands in Indonesia's Aceh

REUTERS
January 8, 2023

[1/5] Rohingya refugees walk after their arrival at the beach in Gampong Baro village, Aceh Besar, Aceh province, Indonesia, January 8, 2023, in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Antara Foto/Khalis Surry/via REUTERS

 

[2/5] Rohingya refugees arrive at the beach in Gampong Baro village, Aceh Besar, Aceh province, Indonesia, January 8, 2023, in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Antara Foto/Ampelsa/via REUTERS 

 

[3/5] Rohingya refugees arrive at the beach in Gampong Baro village, Aceh Besar, Aceh province, Indonesia, January 8, 2023, in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Antara Foto/Ampelsa/via REUTERS 

 

[4/5] Rohingya refugees arrive at the beach in Gampong Baro village, Aceh Besar, Aceh province, Indonesia, January 8, 2023, in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Antara Foto/Khalis Surry/via REUTERS 

 

[5/5] Rohingya refugees carry their goods as they walk following their arrival at the beach in Gampong Baro village, Aceh Besar, Aceh province, Indonesia, January 8, 2023, in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Antara Foto/Khalis Surry/via REUTERS
 

JAKARTA, Jan 8 (Reuters) - A boat with 185 Rohingya refugees landed on the shores of Indonesia's Aceh province on Sunday, a local disaster agency official said, following hundreds who arrived late last year fleeing desperate conditions in refugee camps in Bangladesh.

 

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