More Myanmar Rohingya refugees arrive in Indonesia despite rejection from locals

Rohingya refugee children receive food donated by a representative from the Aceh Ulema Council (MPU) at a temporary shelter in the basement of a government building in Banda Aceh on December 30, 2023, after they were forced by hundreds of storming university students to leave their former temporary shelter on December 27 in the latest rejection of the persecuted Myanmar minority. - AFP

MEDAN, Indonesia (AP): Some 170 likely Myanmar Rohingya refugees, mostly hungry and weak women and children, were found on a beach in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province after weeks at sea, officials said on Sunday.

The group arrived on a beach at Kuala Besar, a fishing village in Langkat district, late Saturday, said the village head, Muhammad Amiruddin.