The United Nations' refugee agency called on Indonesia to let in about 150 Rohingya refugees stranded off Aceh province for almost a week, as local media reported police had arrested three people on charges of human trafficking.

Around 140 Rohingya Muslims, mostly women and children, were anchored on wooden boat near Indonesia's northmost province of Aceh on Tuesday. Residents have refused to let them land.

Indonesian officials say about 140 weak and hungry Rohingya Muslims, mostly women and children, are on a wooden boat anchored about 1 mile off the coast of Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh, a

The United Nations refugee agency has appealed to Indonesia's government to rescue a boat languishing off its western coast packed with more than 100 Rohingya refugees including women and children.

A boatful of 140 Rohingyan refugees, mostly women and children, have been left stranded one mile off the coast of Indonesia as locals refuse to allow the asylum seekers to make landfall. The wooden boat,