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fter five months of being stranded out at sea and then detained in Sabang, Aceh, 114 of 391 Rohingya boat people will soon be deported, an Indonesian Foreign Ministry spokesman Teuku Faizasyah said Tuesday.

"They are all from Bangladesh and have agreed to the deportation," Faizasyah said.

He explained the decision to repatriate the 114 people was taken after comprehensive verification by a Foreign Ministry team.

"They left their country because of economic factors, not because of security or political concerns. They have been classified as economic migrants who must be returned to their country," he said.

The results of the verification, which have been conducted over the last five months, confirm that nearly all the Rohingya people from Bangladesh voluntarily chose to be deported, he said.

However, the Rohingya people from Myanmar have refused to be deported. Their future will be determined by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), as many of them are seeking asylum and are likely to be transferred to other countries.

Faizasyah said the Foreign Ministry did not have any fixed schedules on the deportation of the Rohingya boatpeople from Bangladesh.

"We have discussed this with the Bangladeshi government, but have not yet confirmed the technical arrangements for their repatriation," he said.

Meanwhile, in a report in New York on Tuesday, Human Rights Watch said that Myanmar's neighbors should press the Myanmar military government to end the systematic abuse of Rohingya Muslims, and protect those who flee Myanmar.

Human Rights Watch said the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) had failed to adequately address the plight of the Rohingyas.

The 12-page report titled, Perilous Plight: Burma's Rohingya Take to the Seas, examines the causes of the exodus of the Rohingya people from Myanmar and Bangladesh, and their treatment in Southeast Asian countries. The report also details human rights violations against the Rohingya in Myanmar, especially in Arakan state, which has persisted for over 20 years. Such abuses include extrajudicial killings, forced labor, religious persecution and restrictions on movement, all exacerbated by a draconian citizenship law that leaves the Rohingya stateless.