JAKARTA — More than 70 Rohingya are 'presumed dead or missing' after a boat they were on capsized off the coast of Indonesia's Aceh province, while 75 have been rescued, the UNHCR refugee agency said on Friday (March 22). The UNHCR said in a joint statement with the International Organisation for Migration that if the death toll was confirmed, it..
More than 2,300 Rohingya arrived in Indonesia in 2023.JAKARTA — More than 70 Rohingya are "presumed dead or missing" after a boat they were on capsized off the coast of Indonesia's Aceh province, while 75 have been rescued, the UNHCR refugee agency said on Friday .
The alert was raised on Wednesday when fishermen rescued six of the migrants. A fishing community in Aceh said they had been standing on the hull of the boat after it capsized due to high tides. More than 2,300 Rohingya arrived in Indonesia last year, UNHCR data showed, surpassing the number of arrivals in the previous four years combined.