JAKARTA Some 170 ethnic Rohingya people arrived in Indonesia on Saturday (Dec 2), head of a provincial fishing community said, in the latest boat arrivals in recent weeks that have brought more than 1,000 from Myanmar's Muslim minority to the country. When seas are calmer between November and April every year, members of the persecuted minority leave on wooden.
President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) spoke of having ordered Political, Legal, and Security Coordinating Minister Mahfud MD to handle the issue related to the .
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Some 170 ethnic Rohingya people arrived in Indonesia on Saturday, head of a provincial fishing community said, in the latest boat arrivals in recent weeks that have brought more than 1,000 from Myanmar's Muslim minority to the country. When seas are calmer between November and April every year, members of the persecuted minority leave on wooden boats for neighbouring Thailand and Muslim-majority Bangladesh, Malaysia and Indonesia. Miftah Cut Ade, chief of the fishing community in Aceh on Indonesia's westernmost tip, told Reuters the latest group of Rohingya landed on Le Meulee beach on the island of Sabang before dawn on Saturday.