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Refugees stare at bleak future after Kalideres Camp closure

An Afghan family-of-six sat on a red-and-blue plastic mat near their tent outdoors at Kalideres refugee camp, West ...

Cannot have more refugee camps like Kalideres: UNHCR

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is unwilling to see more shelters like the one in Kalideres, ...

Kalideres refugees may be 'homeless' after Aug 31

Thousands of refugees sheltered at a temporary camp in Kalideres, West Jakarta, might have no place to go when the ...

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Refugees stranded for years in Indonesia, feel neglected

Haydee Alnoori, 40, his wife, and five children, one Jakarta-born, demonstrated with Iraqi refugees, brandishing ...

Baswedan puts refugee care onus back on UNHCR, central government

Governor of Jakarta Anies Baswedan has put the onus of refugee care back on the United Nations High Commissioner for ...

Refugees again rally in Medan asserting neglect by UNHCR

Refugees from different nations again demonstrated in front of the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) ...

Iraqi refugees resume protest in front of UNHCR Jakarta Office

Dozens of Iraqi refugees again rallied for justice in front of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ...

Refugees participate in games to mark Independence Day

Refugees temporarily accommodated at a former building of the West Jakarta military command (Kodim) in Kalideres took ...

Al Azhar Mosque to distribute sacrifice meat to Sumatra, Papua

Al Azhar Mosque in  Jakarta plans to distribute sacrifice cattle (Qurban) meat among villagers in the islands of ...

Foreign refugees miss celebrating Eid Al-Adha at homes

Several Muslim refugees from Afghanistan and Sudan expressed their yearnings of celebrating Eid Al-Adha (the Islamic ...

Mosques stop wrapping "Qurban" meat with single-use plastic

Mosques of several provinces in Indonesia stopped wrapping the sacrificial cattle (Qurban) meats with single-use ...

President Widodo meets with 12 new ambassadors

President Joko Widodo met with 12 new Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of friendly countries on the ...

Indonesia encourages UNHCR to solve refugee issue

Indonesia is encouraging the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and countries ratifying the 1951 ...

Some 400 foreign refugees hold rally in Tanjungpinang

Some 400 foreign refugees rallied in front of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Office in ...

Eid al-adha to be celebrated on Aug 11

Eid Al-Adha (the Islamic Day of Sacrifice) will be celebrated in Indonesia on August 11, following the result of an ...