The vessel, which sailed from a Rohingya camp in Bangladesh, arrived shortly after 3 a.m. local time on a beach in Bireun district. 

It was carrying 114 people, including 58 men, 21 women and 35 children aged under 15 years old, police said. 

"We will conduct a general health check-up and COVID-19 rapid antigen tests for these foreigners," Aceh Police chief Mike Hardy Wirapraja told AFP.

He said they would later be transferred to neighboring Lhokseumawe district, which has a shelter for refugees.

Police found out about the arrival after some local fishermen reported that a boat filled with Rohingya people had landed on the beach.

The boat appeared to be in good condition and the refugees had sufficient food and supplies during the journey.

"We are originally from Myanmar but we fled to Bangladesh and we started our journey from Bangladesh," one of the refugees, Omar Faruk, told an AFP journalist, adding that the group had been at sea for 25 days.

"We left Bangladesh because the Rohingya situation at the camp is not good, it's getting very bad at the moment," the 11-year-old said in English.

Faruk said he left his mother in Bangladesh and followed his uncle to start a new life, preferably in a Muslim majority country like Indonesia or Malaysia.

"We left Bangladesh to this country to make a beautiful future [...] I have no father, only one uncle, and my mother is still in Bangladesh. I came here because I want to improve my education," he added.

It is the second arrival by the persecuted minority in Indonesia in recent months.

More than 100 Rohingya also arrived in Bireun in late December 2021 after drifting for days before the government eventually allowed them to land and dragged their stricken boat to shore.

Indonesia is not a signatory to the 1951 United Nations Convention on Refugees and is predominantly seen as a transit country for those seeking asylum in a third country.

More than 730,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar after a military-led crackdown in 2017 and were forced into squalid camps across the border in Bangladesh. UN investigators concluded that the military campaign had been executed with "genocidal intent".

Most live in cramped camps in Bangladesh, where human traffickers run lucrative operations promising to find them sanctuary abroad.

Each year, hundreds of Rohingya make perilous, months-long journeys from refugee camps in Bangladesh to Southeast Asia. Some have fled by sea, sailing to countries such as Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia between November and April when the seas are calm.

Malaysia is usually the favored destination, but they also end up in Indonesia. Hundreds of them came to Aceh in intervals in recent years.

Last month, local authorities reported that at least 67 Rohingya refugees have escaped from a temporary camp in Lhokseumawe, Aceh, and are believed to have been trafficked to neighboring Malaysia.

Lhokseumawe Police said the Rohingya made their escape from a refugee camp in Meunasah Mee Kandang village in the coastal district of Muara Batu throughout the past year. Police believed human trafficking syndicates were involved.