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Indonesia must be firm with Myanmar over Rohingya crisis: Nahdlatul Ulama

Chairman of the Board of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) Slamet Effendy Yusuf stated that the Indonesian government must be firm ...

Australia PM rules out resettling Asian boat migrants

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott Thursday ruled out helping resettle the wave of migrants fleeing to Southeast ...

Indonesia Provides Temporary Shelters To Rohingya Refugees, Invites Int'l Cooperation

More than 1.5 thousand asylum seekers, mostly Rohingyas from Myanmar and some Bangladeshis, were stranded in ...

Indonesia considers measures to overcome Rohingya migration issue

Indonesia has taken appropriate steps into consideration to resolve the issue of Rohingya and Bangladeshi refugees ...

Arrival of refugees a test for ASEAN: SBY

The wave of Rohingya and Bangladeshi refugees arriving here is a test for ASEAN to deal with these humanitarian ...

Australia sends back illegal immigrants to Indonesian territory

Australia has sent back 15 illegal immigrants from Nepal, Iran and Bangladesh to Indonesian territory in the sea off ...

85 Sri Lankan Immigrants Detained in Medan

As many as 85 Sri Lankan nationals are being detained in an Immigrant Detention House of Medan, Belawan, North ...

Indonesia`s immigration detention centers house 950 minors: UNHCR

Currently, 950 children are housed in immigration detention centers across Indonesia, including more than 440 ...

Australia tightens asylum seekers access, leaves refugees in Indonesia

Australias conservative government on Wednesday defended its decision to stop asylum seekers passing through ...

11 Rohingyas held in Medan immigration detention center

Eleven Rohingyas from Myanmar are being held at the Medan Immigration Detention Center in Belawan, North Sumatra, for ...

From Southeast Asia to the World

Following on the co-production memorandum signed between distribution specialist Hub Media Group and media financing ...

Australia rejects UN criticism of "human rights violations"

Australia Tuesday rejected United Nations criticism that its treatment of asylum-seekers was "leading to a chain of ...

RI, Australia to settle problems of asylum seekers, wiretapping

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott will meet in Batam on ...

Indonesia, Australia Plan To Meet End Of May: Minister Natalegawa

Indonesias Minister of Foreign Affairs Marty Natalegawa is expected to meet with Australias Foreign Minister Julie ...

Number of asylum seekers to Indonesia continues to rise

Silently, the number of asylum seekers and refugees to Indonesia has always increased from year to year reaching ...