400 Rohingya people arrive in Indonesia, contributing to the recent wave of migration.
400 Rohingya people arrive in Indonesia, contributing to the recent wave of migration. Source reuters.com Dec. 10, Jakarta (Reuters) - According to the head of a regional fishing community, dilapidated boats carrying an estimated 400 ethnic Rohingya arrived in Indonesia's Aceh province on Sunday, adding to the recent influx of Muslims from Myanmar. The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) reported that 1,200 Rohingya, a minority group fleeing Myanmar that faces persecution, had arrived in Indonesia as of Sunday. Two boats, one in each of the districts of Pidie and Aceh Besar, arrived in the province early on Sunday morning, according to Miftah Cut Ade, the head of the fishing community in Aceh. He added that each boat held about 200 Rohingya. Around 180 Rohingya arrived in Pidie at 4 a.m. (2100 GMT), according to Andi Susanto, a local military official, and officers were coordinating in the field to g