At least 185 Rohingya refugees have landed in Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh after drifting at sea for weeks, police and rights activists stated.
The boat got here ashore in Ujong Pie village on Monday, an afternoon after a wood vessel with fifty seven Rohingya humans landed in some other a part of Aceh on Christmas Day.
“The institution includes eighty three person males, 70 person girls and 32 children,” stated Aceh police spokesman Winardy, who is going with the aid of using one name, in a statement.
A video shared with the aid of using a nearby resident confirmed the Rohingya, consisting of children, mendacity at the beach, visibly susceptible and exhausted.
The UN refugee organisation UNHCR has stated the variety of Rohingya project such risky trips with the aid of using boat had improved six-fold this yr, as compared with 2021. It entreated governments withinside the vicinity to transport rapidly to rescue them.
On Tuesday, the UN stated at the least 20 Rohingya have died at sea in latest weeks.
More than a million Rohingya Muslims have fled persecution in Buddhist-majority Myanmar seeing that 2017, maximum of them nonetheless languishing in dozens of refugee camps in neighbouring Bangladesh.
Rights companies have recorded a large growth withinside the variety leaving the camps, from approximately 500 remaining yr to an expected 2,four hundred this yr. It isn’t always clean what’s riding the bigger exodus.
Some activists trust the lifting of COVID regulations round Southeast Asia, a favoured vacation spot for the Rohingya, may be a factor.
Earlier this month, Sri Lanka’s military rescued 104 Rohingya, even as Thai government stored six others who had been observed clinging to a floating water tank.
