A wooden ship carrying about 120 Rohingya, a minority of Myanmar's Muslims, was found drifting off the coast of Indonesia, and the Indonesian government decided to accept it as a refugee.

According to local Indonesian authorities, a wooden ship carrying about 120 Rohingya, a minority of Myanmar's Muslims, was found drifting off the coast of western Aceh on the 26th of this month.

In the footage shot locally, the people on board sit close together, most of them seen as women and children.



Also, because the ship was in danger of breaking down and sinking, UNHCR = United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and international NGOs requested the Indonesian government to allow landing, but the Indonesian government said on the 29th. Announced that it will be urgently accepted as a refugee.



More than 700,000 Rohingya people have fled to neighboring Bangladesh after a large military sweeping operation in Myanmar four years ago, forcing them to live in refugee camps.



However, while the military coup d'etat in Myanmar in February and took control, the return of Rohingya refugees has not progressed, and there are many people who are aiming for Malaysia etc. by ship with the help of smugglers. , There are a number of cases of refugees being denied landing or being distressed and dying.