Indonesian VP: Suspected human smuggling linked to Rohingya refugee inflow
Indonesian VP: Suspected human smuggling linked to Rohingya refugee inflow Source en.antaranews.com Jakarta (ANTARA) - Vice President Ma'ruf Amin announced on Monday that the Indonesian government is looking into the possible connection between human trafficking and the rise in Rohingya refugee arrivals in Indonesia and other countries. We're trying to ascertain why they're coming here. They are not travelling to Indonesia; rather, it is a sort of transit country where we discovered evidence of possible human trafficking. Now, this needs to be stopped before it develops into an ongoing issue," he continued. According to Amin, stopping human trafficking is necessary to keep the Rohingya refugee crisis from getting worse over time. He brought out the fact that Indonesia is not a signatory to the UN Refugee Convention of 1952. Amin stated that in addition to conducting trafficking prevention initiative