United Nations applauds Indonesia for allowing Rohinya refugees disembark in their country

A Rohingya child looks on near a window of a bus during an evacuation after they arrive by boat at a port in Krueng Geukuh near Lhokseumawe, North Aceh, Indonesia, Dec 31, 2021. - Reuters

JAKARTA, Dec 31 (Bernama): UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency, praised the Indonesian government for allowing the safe disembarkation of 105 Rohingya refugees who had been adrift for three weeks in the open seas near Aceh province.

The eight men, 50 women and 47 children who disembarked on Thursday evening, had been at sea in dangerous conditions and was first sighted in the waters near Bireuen, in northern Aceh, on Dec 26.