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Refugee Crisis in Indonesia

ABDULLAH (right) asylum seekers from Afghanistan that just arrive in Indonesia for 3 months. Refugees, asylum seekers or those displaced internally – was at an estimated 65.3 million by the end of 2015. In Indonesia A total of 13,829 persons of concern (refugees and asylum‐seekers) as of 29 February 2016. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has just signed a presidential regulation (Perpres) on asylum seekers, detailing protocols for how to treat those who land on the nation’s shores to escape life-threatening events in their homelands. The newly issued protocols, signed on Dec. 31, would help the government assist the more than 14,000 refugees and asylum seekers who have long been overlooked since entering Indonesia, which is not a signatory to the United Nations’ 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. (Photo by Donal Husni/NurPhoto)

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