More than 180 Rohingya refugees have arrived on the shores of Indonesia’s Aceh province on Monday after fleeing violence in Burma, Indonesian authorities have confirmed.
They are the latest group of migrants to flee by sea from Rajine state in the west of the country. Most of them, security forces told Antara news agency, arrived in wooden boats.
The Indonesian police said that a total of 184 Rohingya migrants had arrived, the majority of whom arrived at around 3:30 a.m. local time on the Indonesian coast. Among them were 90 women and children, it said.
Since November 2022, Indonesian authorities have registered 918 Rohingya migrants sailing south. In comparison, in the whole of 2021, some 180 refugees arrived on Indonesian shores.
Bangladesh has also recorded a strong migration wave of Rohingyas from Burma. Nearly one million Rohingyas remain refugees in Bangladesh, mostly after fleeing the crackdown launched in August 2017 by the Burma Armed Forces, already classified as genocide. The lack of prospect of return has pushed thousands of them to seek new outlets in other countries in the area.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
