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  • RegionalIndonesia’s Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi at the ASEAN summit in Vientiane on July 26 (Sai Aung Main / AFP)
    AFPJuly 26, 2024

    Indonesia FM slams Myanmar junta shunning of peace plan

    The regime has ignored ASEAN’s five-point consensus on ending the crisis in Myanmar as it continues to crack down on dissent and armed resistance

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  • NewsVolunteers pray before burying the bodies of Rohingya refugees recovered at sea by the National Search and Rescue Agency at the Teuku Umar Hospital in Calang, West Aceh, Indonesia, on March 25, 2024 (Zahlul AKBAR / AFP)
    AFPMarch 26, 2024

    11 Rohingya found dead after Indonesia boat capsize: officials

    Initial reports indicated that five bodies were found—six more, all women, were discovered soon after

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  • NewsRohingya refugees wait to be rescued from the hull of their capsized boat as a National Search and Rescue Agency vessel approaches nearly 30 km off West Aceh on March 21, 2024 (Zahlul Akbar / AFP)
    AFPZahlul AkbarMarch 22, 2024

    Indonesia rescuers save 69 Rohingya refugees at sea

    The men, women and children had been at sea for weeks on a rickety wooden boat from camps in Bangladesh where many of the heavily persecuted Myanmar minority have fled

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    Mulyadi and Jack Moore / AFPNovember 22, 2023

    More Rohingya refugees land in Indonesia, pushing weekly total past 1,000

    Around 200 Rohingya refugees arrived in Indonesia’s westernmost province by sea overnight, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said Wednesday, bringing the total number of arrivals in the last week to more than 1,000. Thousands of the mostly Muslim Rohingya, a persecuted minority from Myanmar, risk their lives each year on long and expensive sea journeys, often in flimsy boats, to try to reach Malaysia or Indonesia. The latest group, which included men, women and children, landed in the small city of Sabang in Aceh Province at the tip of northern Sumatra at around 11pm local time on Tuesday.“The mayor, he said 200. He informed us about the disembarkation. The team will depart to Sabang early tomorrow morning,” UNHCR protection associate Faisal Rahman told AFP. Members of the local community said the number could be higher, with estimates as high as 360 refugees landing, said Rahman. Locals in Aceh last week turned away several boat arrivals from Bangladesh, saying they did not have the resources to accept the desperate refugees who in most cases have spent weeks at sea. Images and footage seen by AFP showed the latest arrivals sitting in rows on a beach in Sabang instead of being…

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    Mulyadi / AFPNovember 20, 2023

    More than 500 Rohingya refugees land in Indonesia

    Some of the refugees who arrived on Sunday had been pushed back out to sea late last week

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