At least 147 Rohingya refugees, mostly women and children, landed in Indonesia’s westernmost province on Wednesday, a local official said, a day after nearly 200 others came ashore in the same area.
Thousands of the mostly Muslim Rohingya risk their lives each year on long and expensive sea journeys, often in flimsy boats, to try to reach Malaysia or Indonesia.
A wooden boat landed on a beach in Batee subdistrict in Aceh Province’s Pidie region at around 5:10pm, local government official Ihsan, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, said in a statement.
“The boat was carrying Rohingya refugees who consisted of 46 adult men, 57 adult women, and 44 children, so 147 in total,” he said.
It is not yet clear how long their boat was at sea or where it came from, but many Rohingya often make the arduous journey from refugee camps in. . .
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