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View all search resultsKhadiza's first initiative was to start accompanying female Rohingya refugees to hospitals and schools, before opening a Japanese language school as a volunteer while offering consultations to help them solve their problems.
Experts have urged better government communication and diplomatic efforts to cool simmering tensions among local communities over the recent arrival in Aceh of Rohingya refugees, a predominantly Muslim minority ethnic group fleeing state-sanctioned discrimination in Myanmar.
Based on patterns from previous cases, the refugees might have left their shelters for several reasons, including to reunite with their families in neighboring countries, said UNHCR spokesperson Mitra Salima Suryono.
The last month has seen a spike in journeys to Indonesia's westernmost province of Aceh from Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh; a voyage of about 1,800 kilometers with more than 1,000 arrivals in the biggest such wave since a 2017 Myanmar military crackdown.
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