(17 Nov 2023)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
North Aceh, Indonesia - 16 November 2023
++DAY SHOTS++
1. Rohingyas walking in water after getting off leaking boat
2. Pan right hundreds of Rohingya on beach surrounded by villagers
3. Rohingya men sitting on beach
4. Various of children and women
5. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Rusdi, village officer:
"We've provided food and drinks to them but after that the residents asked them to leave this place. We are already overwhelmed with too many Rohingya."
6. Various of Rohingya men and women carrying boxes of food and drinks given by local residents
7. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Rahmat Karpolo, Head of village:
"The residents here really don't want to accept them (Rohingya) because based on past experience, Rohingyas cannot obey the rules and many of them run away (from shelters) so we are worried that the same incident will happen again."
++NIGHT SHOTS++
8. Various of Rohingya women walking in the water and getting onto fishing boats that will move them away
9. Local residents directing Rohingya men to fishing boats and boarding
10. Various of local residents pushing fishing boats carrying Rohingya away from the beach
STORYLINE:
Some 240 Rohingya Muslims, including women and children, are afloat off the coast of Indonesia after two attempts to land were rejected by local residents.
Officials said the boat most recently tried to land in Aceh Utara district, in Indonesia’s Aceh province, on Thursday afternoon, but left a few hours later.
It is the fourth boat to reach Indonesia’s northernmost province since Tuesday. Three others arrived in a different district and were allowed to land.
Residents of the Ulee Madon beach in Muara Batu sub-district said they would not accept the latest group as Rohingya have come to the area several times and caused discomfort to locals.
"We've provided food and drinks to them but after that the residents asked them to leave this place. We are already overwhelmed with too many Rohingya," said Rusdi, a village officer.
Rahmat Karpolo, a head of village, said residents are fearful because of "past experience".
"Rohingyas cannot obey the rules and many of them run away (from shelters) so we are worried that the same incident will happen again," said Karpolo.
More than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fled from Buddhist-majority Myanmar to refugee camps in Bangladesh after an army-led crackdown in August 2017.
They say the camps are overcrowded and they must leave again in search of a better life.
Most of the refugees who left the camps by sea have attempted to reach Malaysia, but many have ended up in Indonesia along the way.
Indonesia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a written statement on Thursday said that Indonesia is not a party to the 1951 Refugee Convention.
Therefore, Indonesia does not have the obligation or capacity to accommodate refugees, let alone to provide a permanent solution for the refugees.
AP video shot by Muzakir Nurdin
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