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Nearly 2,000 foreign migrants enter Indonesia
The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Thu, 06/18/2009 10:31 PM | National
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees said 1,928 foreign migrants had streamed into Indonesia as of June, mostly on their way to countries where they can seek asylum.“Among the migrants, 441 are refugees and the rest are asylum seekers,” UNHCR representative office staff member Nurul Qoiriah told a seminar, held in conjunction with the International Day of Refugees, on Thursday.
UNHCR data revealed that around 1,200 migrants came from strife-torn Afghanistan, some 300 from Myanmar and 282 from conflict-ridden Iraq.
“They stay at refugee shelters across the country, but most of them are in Jakarta,” she said. Other shelters are located in Aceh, Bogor in West Java and Mataram in West Nusa Tenggara.
Nurul said the world body had secured the migrants’ daily needs and were interviewing them as part of the procedure to declare them asylum seekers.
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Jack Chavez (not verified) — Fri, 06/19/2009 - 10:26am
What exactly is the dif between an asylum seeker and a ref?