Indonesia shore received hundreds of Rohingya rising to more than 1000 this week

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Rohingya arriving on the Indonesian coast. Photo: Reuters

JAKARTA: Over 200 ethnic Rohingya were reported to arrive ashore in Indonesia's Aceh province late on Tuesday, taking total arrivals of members of the Myanmar Muslim minority to more than 1,000 for the week, a leader of the province's fishing community said, Reuters reported.

From November to April, when the seas are calmer, many members of the persecuted minority leave Myanmar on rickety boats for Thailand, Muslim-majority Bangladesh, Malaysia and Indonesia.

Acehnese fishing community chief Miftach Cut Adek told Reuters that the latest arrivals, 216 mostly of them women and children, "weak and lacking nutrition", had arrived near Sabang, off the northern tip of Sumatra island, late on Tuesday.

Mitra Salima Suryono, a spokesperson for the U.N. refugee agency in Indonesia, said there did not appear to be any particular reason for the large number of Rohingya arriving.

"The reason why they migrated is to find a safer life," she said.

Mitra said Aceh villagers had tried to prevent hundreds of Rohingya arriving in the Bireuen area in northeast Sumatra last week although they eventually came ashore on Sunday.

A wooden boat carrying Rohingya Muslims is sighted off the coast. Photo: Reuters

For years, Rohingya have left Buddhist-majority Myanmar where they are generally regarded as foreign interlopers from South Asia, denied citizenship and subjected to abuse.

Nearly a million Rohingya live in refugee camps in the Bangladeshi border district of Cox's Bazar, most after fleeing a military-led crackdown in Myanmar in 2017.

Indonesia's Foreign Ministry has said it "has no obligation nor capacity to accommodate refugees, let alone to provide a permanent solution".

Usman Hamid, the director of the rights group Amnesty International Indonesia, called for authorities to take in the Rohingya and talk with neighbours, especially Malaysia and Thailand, where Rohingya also often stop.

Rohingya is a stateless Indo-Aryan ethnic group who predominantly follow Islam and they have been described by the journalists and the news media as one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.

印尼海岸接收了數百名羅興亞人，本週增加至超過 1000 人

雅加達：據路透社報道，印尼亞齊省漁業社區的一位領導人表示，據報道，週二晚間，有超過200 名羅興亞人抵達印尼亞齊省，使該省的緬甸穆斯林少數民族成員總數達到1,000 多人。

從十一月到四月，當海面平靜時，許多受迫害的少數民族成員乘坐搖搖晃晃的小船離開緬甸，前往泰國、穆斯林占多數的孟加拉國、馬來西亞和印度尼西亞

亞齊漁業社區負責人 Miftach Cut Adek 告訴路透社，最新抵達的 216 名漁民於週二晚些時候抵達蘇門答臘島北端的薩邦附近，其中大多數是婦女和兒童，「身體虛弱且缺乏營養」。

聯合國駐印尼難民機構發言人米特拉薩利馬蘇約諾 (Mitra Salima Suryono) 表示，大量羅興亞人抵達似乎沒有任何特殊原因。

「他們移民的原因是為了尋找更安全的生活，」她說。

米特拉說，亞齊村民上週試圖阻止數百名羅興亞人抵達蘇門答臘島東北部的比魯恩地區，儘管他們最終在周日上岸。

多年來，羅興亞人離開了佛教徒佔多數的緬甸，在那裡他們被普遍視為來自南亞的外國闖入者，被剝奪公民身份並遭受虐待。

近百萬羅興亞人生活在孟加拉邊境科克斯巴扎爾地區的難民營中，其中大多數是在2017年逃離緬甸軍方領導的鎮壓後逃離的。

印尼外交部表示，它「沒有義務也沒有能力收容難民，更不用說提供永久解決方案」。

印尼人權組織國際特赦組織主任烏斯曼·哈米德呼籲當局收容羅興亞人，並與鄰國進行對話，特別是馬來西亞和泰國，羅興亞人也經常在這兩個國家停留。

羅興亞人是一個無國籍的印度雅利安族群，主要信奉伊斯蘭教，他們被記者和新聞媒體描述為世界上受迫害最嚴重的少數民族之一。