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JAKARTA, Jan 28 Hundreds of Rohingya are missing from a refugee camp in Indonesia and are believed to have been trafficked to neighbouring Malaysia, officials and sources said today.
Just 112 refugees remain at the makeshift camp in Lhokseumawe on Indonesia’s northern coast this week, well down from the almost 400 that arrived between June and September last year.
Neither local authorities nor the UN could account for the whereabouts of the refugees from the stateless Muslim minority from Myanmar, who are feared to have enlisted traffickers to help them cross the Malacca strait into Malaysia.
January 28, 2021
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This photo taken on October 22, 2020 shows a Rohingya woman cooking at a temporary shelter in Lhokseumawe in Aceh province. (Photo by CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN / AFP)
Hundreds of Rohingya are missing from a refugee camp in Indonesia and are believed to have been trafficked to neighbouring Malaysia, officials and sources said Thursday.
Just 112 refugees remain at the makeshift camp in Lhokseumawe on Indonesia’s northern coast this week, well down from the almost 400 that arrived between June and September last year.
Neither local authorities nor the UN could account for the whereabouts of the refugees from the stateless Muslim minority from Myanmar, who are feared to have enlisted traffickers to help them cross the Malacca strait into Malaysia.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia’s military on Wednesday named nine soldiers as suspects in the killing in April of two civilians in the country’s Papua region, as part of a state probe into violence this year in an area beset by separatist conflict.
The military is conducting an internal investigation as part of a fact-finding mission that started in October into several incidents in the Intan Jaya district, including the fatal shooting of a Christian pastor in September.
Lieutenant General Dodik Wijanarko in a statement said the nine soldiers had committed “acts beyond the limits of propriety” while interrogating two Papuans suspected of being separatist rebels, who later died.
Papuan environment defenders refuse to bow to intimidation
Threats and violence are all too common hazards facing rights and environmental activists in Indonesia s Papua region
Korindo Group is accused of destroying forests for palm oil plantations in southern Papua. (Photo courtesy of pusaka.org)
Environment defenders in Indonesia’s Papua region say they will remain steadfast in their mission to defend and protect customary land from destruction despite suffering intimidation, terror and violence at the hands of palm oil companies and security forces.
Pusaka Bentala Rakyat Foundation, a Jakarta-based non-governmental organization campaigning for the rights of indigenous people in Papua, says attacks against defenders of customary rights continue unabated.
Written By: lprent - Date published: 10:43 pm, January 11th, 2021 - 22 comments
In September there was a 18 hour flight Dubai that ended in Auckland. A relatively close group on that plane showed infection after arrival, and a genetically similar version. The evidence of in-flight infection is very strong and points to the on-going issues with shipping virus hosts around the world. This has some pretty strong implications for long-haul flights in particular. But also to the risks of having travel ‘bubbles’ without enforced quarantine.