#boat people

Collection of boat people news, found 39 news.

11 stranded in Komodo National Park waters, rescued

Maumere Office, Lalu Wahyu Effendi, informed. The vessel, which was headed to Sabolo Island with 11 tourists and two ...

Over 100 Rohingya immigrants take shelter in Aceh emergency tents

More than a hundred Rohingya immigrants are staying in emergency tents in Bireuen district, Aceh province, after ...

Year Ender 2020

ASEAN's concrete actions paramount to ending Rohingya's misery

Some 399 Rohingya boat people, including women and children, were stranded in Aceh, Indonesia's westernmost ...

Indonesia fights for resolution on Rohingya aid at AIPA meeting

Indonesia Office had officially granted refugee status to the 99 Rohingya migrants, according to Indonesian Foreign ...

Facilities on Galang Island to be improved in two weeks

Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Cultural Affairs Muhadjir Effendy voiced President Jokowi’s ...

Galang facility to become observation center, not hospital: Minister

The former Vietnamese refugee camp in Galang Island will not be developed as a hospital but rather as an isolation and ...

Govt allots Rp17 billion for Galang Island's water distribution system

The government has allocated funding worth Rp17 billion to install a water distribution system on Galang Island in ...

PKS, PPP parties propose Galang Island for Rohingya refugees

Factions of the Justice and Prosperous Party (PKS) and the United Development Party (PPP) at the Riau Islands ...

Tens of immigrants stranded in sea off southern coast of West Java

Tens of illegal immigrants were found stranded off Jayanti, Cianjur in the southern coast of West Java in early ...

US ready to assist Indonesia in Southeast Asian refugee crisis

The United States expressed readiness to assist Indonesia through the United Nations (UN) to handle the Southeast ...

US envoy lauds Indonesia for handling refugees

The U. S. Ambassador to Indonesia Robert Blake has praised the Indonesian government for handling the refugee crisis ...

Rohingya muslims found on boat rescued by Myanmar Navy

At least eight Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar were among some 200 migrants rescued from a trafficking boat by ...

"Boat people" ikely posing as Rohingya for aid, says Myanmar general

Myanmar's military commander-in-chief said some "boat people" landing in Malaysia and Indonesia this month are likely ...

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 ...

Rohingya boat people need humanitarian support : Indonesian minister

Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim Saifuddin said the Rohingya boat people stranded in Indonesian territory need ...