Rohingya Refugees Continue to Arrive in Indonesia Amid Local Hostility

Over 1,500 have landed since November, fleeing squalid conditions in Bangladesh and facing rejection from Indonesian locals.

Over 140 Rohingya refugees, predominantly women and children, have arrived in North Sumatra, Indonesia, adding to the surge of arrivals since November.
Despite not being a signatory to the 1951 United Nations Convention on Refugees, Indonesia has a history of providing at least temporary accommodation to refugees.
Local residents have expressed hostility towards the refugees, with protests and even an attack on a community hall sheltering Rohingya refugees in Aceh province.
The refugees are fleeing from squalid conditions, gang violence, and rampant hunger in camps in Bangladesh, where they were resettled after escaping a brutal counterinsurgency campaign in Myanmar.
Indonesia's navy has been pushing boats carrying Rohingya refugees back to international waters, and it is unclear if the recent arrivals were from a boat previously pushed away.