Lani Diana Wijaya, Jakarta – The government and the Jakarta capital administration plan to provide help to the asylum seekers currently dwelling in on the sidewalks of Kebon Sirih Road
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July 10, 2019
July 9, 2019
Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – The United Nations Refugee Agency, or the UNHCR, will work together with the Foreign Affairs Ministry and the Justice and Human Rights Ministry to find a way out
Yudha Baskoro, Jakarta – The narrow sidewalks of Jalan Kebon Sirih in Central Jakarta are now occupied by refugees and asylum seekers who were kicked out of their tents near the immigr
July 6, 2019
Jakarta – Asylum seekers from several war-torn countries are camped out on the sidewalks of Jl.
July 3, 2019
Papua, Jubi – About 250 West Papuans have been served notices of eviction to leave their settlement in Port Moresby, reports The National.
July 1, 2019
Hipolitus Yolisandry Ringgi Wangge – Just like any 12-year-old boy, Daniel appeared happy and carefree as he played soccer with his friends in the churchyard of Kingmi Weneroma.
June 20, 2019
Yudha Baskoro – A tiny alley just around the corner from the United Nations' refugee agency, the UNHCR, on Jalan Kebon Sirih in Central Jakarta, has become a home in transit for a grou
There are an estimated 14,000 refugees and asylum seekers in Indonesia.
April 29, 2019
Volunteer education services continue for West Papuan children displaced by ongoing conflict in the Highlands.
April 3, 2019
A human rights group has reported that tens of thousands of people in Indonesia's Papua province have been displaced by conflict.
March 4, 2019
Ian Morse, Makassar, Indonesia – Earlier this month Sajad Jacob, an asylum seeker from Afghanistan who had been living in an Indonesian detention centre for nearly two decades, died in
February 16, 2019
Kate Lamb, Jakarta – "I don't think it will be like before," 21-year-old Hussain Badavi says, as he contemplates the idea of taking a boat to Australia – something the young Iranian re
January 6, 2019
Jack Board, Bireuen, Indonesia – For one of the world's most persecuted minorities, in the midst of their struggle, there was always one place they were welcomed.
August 2, 2018
Junior Ukaha – West Papuan refugees seeking to live in Papua New Guinea have not come to look for land or home but were forced out of their country, according to John Lanta.
June 18, 2018
Sheany, Jakarta – Unresolved conflicts result in increasing violence and persecution, which force millions of people to flee their homes in search for safety.
May 25, 2018
Krithika Varagur, Bireuen – The 79 Rohingya refugees who set off on a boat from Myanmar's Rakhine state last month were terrified when they were intercepted and redirected by Thailand's
April 15, 2018
Kate Lamb and Ben Doherty – It has been 58 days.
April 7, 2018
Banda Aceh – Five Rohingya stranded at sea for almost three weeks have been rescued by Indonesian fishermen but several others died during the harrowing ordeal, officials said Friday, w
April 5, 2018
Jakarta – The recent clash between Indonesian Military (TNI) personnel and a local armed group at the Sinai Opitawak Church in Tembagapura, Papua, has forced hundreds of villagers into
April 4, 2018
Niniek Karmini and Stephen Wright, Jakarta, Indonesia – A commander of rebels in Indonesia's easternmost Papua region said Tuesday that as many as 100 villagers have taken shelter with
February 6, 2018
Siktus Harson, Kupang – For nearly two decades, life has never been a celebration for Maria Pereira.
October 31, 2017
Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Refugees in Indonesia are being told the devastating news that most will never be resettled in Australia or any other country.
September 6, 2017
Jakarta – Thousands of Muslims protested outside the Myanmar embassy in Central Jakarta on Wednesday demanding an end to violence against the country's Rohingya Muslim minority.
September 5, 2017
Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa, Jakarta – Islamic groups behind the mass anti-blasphemy protests that rocked Jakarta last year are planning a "solidarity action" near Borobudur – the world's large
August 11, 2017
Fachrul Sidiq, Jakarta – Fifty asylum seekers, mostly from Afghanistan and Somalia, have been camping on the basketball court of the Jakarta Immigration Detention Center, Kalideres, West Jakarta, s
August 4, 2017
Max Walden – Asylum Seekers and refugees residing in Indonesia have protested against the United Nations refugee body for lengthy processes and what some perceive as a discriminatory selection proc
July 20, 2017
Konradus Epa in Atambua, Indonesia – Rostiana Bareto experienced tough living conditions as a refugee when she and her family settled in Atambua, western Timor, on the border with Indonesia.
July 10, 2017
Samantha Hawley, Indonesia – Rabia Rezai thought it better she stay at home rather than be reunited with her husband in Australia.
March 17, 2017
Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa – Notorious people smuggler "Captain Bram", who organised the asylum seekers' boat at the centre of the notorious 'cash for boat-turn-back' scandal in 2015, has been
January 18, 2017
Tama Salim, Haeril Halim and Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The government has streamlined procedures for handling asylum seekers, clearing stumbling blocks that had earlier hindered them from enter
November 15, 2016
Tama Salim, Jakarta – The UN High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) has urged Indonesia to reconsider signing the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees as part of concerted efforts to res
November 14, 2016
Fadli, Batam – Dozens of people under the banner of the People's Information Center (Lira) gathered on Sunday at Aspirasi Park in Batam, where scores of refugees have been staying for months, and t
November 2, 2016
Panca Nugraha, Mataram – Thousands of families residing in Timor Leste before its independence have returned to Indonesia's West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) after passing citizen verification and validatio
October 23, 2016
Lita Aruperes, Manado, North Sulawesi – The North Sulawesi Police have uncovered an alleged charging of illegal fees in the disbursement of compensation funds to former residents of East Timor (now
October 16, 2016
Fadli, Batam – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says it will support whatever decision the Indonesian government takes concerning refugees and asylum seekers in Batam so lo
September 24, 2016
Jakarta – The Indonesian Minister of Social Affairs Khofifah Indar Parawansa handed over the compensation amount to 24 families of former of East Timorese but currently residents of Kediri, East Ja
June 22, 2016
Ben Doherty – Several of the Tamil asylum seekers stranded after arriving by boat on the Indonesian island of Aceh have been tortured in Sri Lanka and face certain persecution if they are returned,
June 21, 2016
Jakarta – In the same fortnight a boat load of Sri Lankan refugees in Aceh makes global headlines, the 13,000 asylum seekers calling Indonesia home reflected on World Refugee Day on Monday (20/06).
June 20, 2016
Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa, Jakarta – Sri Lankans on board a boat marooned in Indonesia for more than a week insist they will continue their journey to Australia if their boat is escorted back
June 18, 2016
Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa, Jakarta – Police fired a warning shot into the air after a group of Sri Lankan women who have been stranded off the coast of Aceh since June 11 disembarked from the
June 16, 2016
Banda Aceh – The Indonesian government has said it will not take in 44 Sri Lankan refugees who have been stranded in Aceh waters for the last few days.
February 10, 2016
Aceh fishermen are nominated to receive the 2016 Nansen Refugee Award from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR) for rescuing hundreds of migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh in
January 18, 2016
Deborah Cassrels – Under cover of darkness, 43 West Papuan asylum-seekers clambered aboard a dugout canoe at midnight.
January 17, 2016
Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa, Rote Island – The captain of an asylum seeker boat who said he was paid thousands of dollars by an Australian official to return to Indonesia has been sentenced to
December 2, 2015
The captain of an asylum-seeker boat allegedly intercepted by the Australian navy has told a court how he negotiated a hefty payment to take the migrants back to Indonesia to avoid goin
November 27, 2015
Jewel Topsfield – Tensions have once again flared between Indonesia and Australia over asylum seeker policy after a boat that was pushed back from Christmas Island by the Royal Australi
November 20, 2015
Jakarta – A lawmaker has emphatically opposed an idea put forward by Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Luhut Binsar Panjaitan to provide an island to accommoda
July 29, 2015
Dylan Amirio, National – The National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) has signed a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) that wil
June 25, 2015
Beh Lih Yi in Pelabuhan Ratu, Indonesia – Business has been bad for Gandi, a fisherman who rides the waves off Indonesia's rugged southern Java coast.
June 17, 2015
Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa – The asylum seeker boat captain has spoken publicly for the first time, confirming he received a cash payment from an Australian official on the condition he never