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, and local residents refused to allow them onto land.

UNHCR Calls for Indonesia to Let in Rohingya Stranded at Sea off Aceh JAKARTA (Reuters) - 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 ...

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.

Approximately 140 Rohingya refugees, primarily women and children, are stranded off Indonesia's Aceh province. After a perilous journey from Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, tensions rise as local communities deny them landing.

Persecuted in Myanmar, thousands of Rohingya risk dangerous sea voyages each year to reach Malaysia or Indonesia

A boat carrying about 100 Rohingya refugees has been left stranded off the coast of north-western Indonesia, with at least one person dead as immigration authorities in Aceh province decide whether to allow the group to come ashore.

Around 140 Rohingya refugees, primarily women and children, are stranded on a boat off the coast of Indonesia's Aceh province. Facing a community that refuses to let them land, they endure dire conditions.

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 boat carrying more than 100 Rohingya refugees was spotted off Indonesia's westernmost province with at least one dead body seen on board, local officials said on Saturday. The mostly Muslim ethnic Rohingya are heavily persecuted in Myanmar,

Jakarta. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has urged the Indonesian government to rescue a boat adrift off the western coast of Aceh, carrying more than 100 Rohingya refugees, including women and children.

Residents of a town in western Indonesia shared food with the refugees but declined to host them, leaving them stuck on a boat miles from shore.