As our car driver said, the road conditions on Timor Island are nothing compared to the roads on Flores Island, which we will be crossing the day after tomorrow. Duh, my head immediately filled with worry.
JAKARTA/NEW DELHI: Activists called on the Indonesian government on Saturday to rescue hundreds of Rohingya refugees who have been adrift for weeks on boats in the Indian Ocean, amid reports of the passengers dying onboard broken vessels. Two boats carrying refugees, including women and children, entered Indonesian waters near the northernmost province of Aceh on Friday
Jakarta, Mar 7 (EFE).- More than 100 Rohingyas, the persecuted mainly-Muslim minority in Myanmar, were rescued on Sunday by fishermen and locals in the northern province of Aceh on the Indonesian island of Sumatra after being adrift for almost a month. The 114 Rohingyas, most of them men and children, arrived in a small boat …
The boat was being towed ashore with more than 100 Rohingya refugees on board. Indonesia initially said it would turn the vessel away, but relented under pressure from rights groups.