#asylum seekers

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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, ...

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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 ...

Jakarta to cease humanitarian assistance for refugees by August-end

Speaker of the Jakarta provincial parliament Prasetio Edi Marsudi confirmed that the Jakarta administration will put a ...

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 ...

Indonesia encourages UNHCR to solve refugee issue

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

Government urged to find uninhabited island for UNHCR office

The Indonesian government could find an uninhabited island for a new office of the United Nations High Commissioner for ...

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Indonesia provides safe haven for refugees

Dozens of refugees from Afghanistan and other countries thronged a street in front of Ravindo Building at Jalan Kebon ...

W Jakarta provides medical check for pregnant refugees

The Kalideres public health center in West Jakarta has provided a free medical checkup for foreign refugees who ...

Social Affairs Ministry allocates Rp267 million for refugees

The Ministry of Social Affairs has allocated Rp267 million as assistance to refugees who occupy a former building of ...

West Jakarta accommodates 1,100 refugees

An official confirmed that some 1,100 foreign refugees were currently being accommodated in West Jakarta. "It ...

Social Ministry provides logistical assistance to refugees

The Ministry of Social Affairs has provided logistical and psychosocial assistance to refugees who originally occupied ...

Refugees throng street in front of UNHCR office

Refugees and asylum seekers thronged a street in front of Ravindo Building at Jalan Kebon Sirih, Central Jakarta, on ...

Kebon Sirih's several hundred asylum seekers need food assistance

Hundreds of asylum seekers, who had rallied and set up tents in front of the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner ...

JIC North Jakarta readies rooms to accommodate asylum seekers

The Jakarta Islamic Center (JIC) Grand Mosque in North Jakarta has readied two rooms to accommodate hundreds of asylum ...