Rohingya Refugees Have Arrived in Indonesia
![The UN High Commissioner for Refugees says more than 70 percent of the Rohingya who have arrived in Indonesia in recent months are women and children. [Jessica Washington/Al Jazeera]](https://liberties.aljazeera.com/media/2024/11/1732537129.webp)
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees says more than 70 percent of the Rohingya who have arrived in Indonesia in recent months are women and children. [Jessica Washington/Al Jazeera]
Hundreds of Rohingya refugees have arrived in Indonesia’s north in recent weeks – many of them children.
Arrivals by boat are expected to pick-up this month, with the start of the monsoon season.
Rohingya faces persecution in Myanmar, and hundreds of thousands have fled military crackdowns, seeking shelter in refugee camps in neighbouring Bangladesh.
Thousands have left on perilous journeys for Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia on rickety boats, taking advantage of calmer seas between October and April.
The Rohingya have long suffered persecution in Myanmar, including a brutal military offensive that drove some 750,000 members of the community into Bangladesh in 2017.
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