Muhammad Yunus came ashore in Indonesia by accident after a harrowing boat journey – but he and hundreds of other Rohingya migrants are delighted to be spending Islam’s holiest month at Kuala Cangkoi in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country.
The boat people in Aceh province are among thousands of Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants who arrived in countries across South-East Asia last month after a Thai crackdown threw the people-smuggling trade into chaos and sparked a regional crisis.
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