Nearly 200 Rohingya Refugees Arrive in Indonesia's Aceh

Local Community Provides Aid as UNHCR Warns of Deadly Sea Journeys

Nearly 200 Rohingya, most of them women and children, arrived by boat in Indonesia's Aceh province on Tuesday, November 14, 2023.
The Rohingya, a persecuted minority in Myanmar, have been fleeing for years, with many dying at sea due to disease, hunger, and fatigue.
The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has said that 2022 may have been one of the deadliest years at sea in almost a decade for the Rohingya.
Local residents provided food and water to the Rohingya, who were taken to a temporary shelter.
Nearly one million Rohingya live in crowded conditions in Bangladesh, among them those who fled a deadly crackdown in 2017 by Myanmar's military, which denies committing crimes against humanity.