Pekanbaru, Riau – Authorities at the Indonesian Immigration’s detention house in Pekanbaru, Riau province, have actually decided versus using a community house at Nevada Hotel for sheltering foreign refugees as regional homeowners have actually challenged their presence in the neighborhood.
A group of individuals residing near the Nevada Hotel had actually staged a number of rallies challenging the asylum candidates being protected there, head of the Pekanbaru Immigration Office’s detention house, Yanto Ardianto, told reporters on Wednesday.
Thinking about the level of sensitivity of the circumstance, Ardianto said he had decided not to suggest the use of the Nevada Community House for accommodating foreign refugees and informed Pekanbaru Mayor Firdaus of his choice.
” The Migration Workplace’s detention house does not wish to move the refugees if they then clash with local citizens,” he notified.
Early this week, more than a hundred refugees had staged a demonstration in front of the Pekanbaru Immigration Workplace’s detention house over what they called “overcapacity at Satria Hotel” where they have actually presently been accommodated.
Responding to the demonstration, Ardianto said foreign refugees might not be aware of the guidelines stipulated by Presidential Decree Number 125/2016 on the Treatment of Refugees from Overseas.
According to the governmental decree, the location of shelters for foreign refugees in Pekanbaru needs to be chosen by the city administration’s National and Political Unity Workplace (Kesbangpol), he notified.
To fix the problem raised by the refugees, the Pekanbaru Immigration authorities completely checked the availability of spaces at Satria Hotel, he stated.
They discovered 20 vacant rooms at the hotel that could be used to deal with overcrowding, but the International Company for Migration (IOM) is yet to respond to this proposition, he added.
” We are not in a position to figure out the neighborhood house for the refugees. We have no interests at all in this matter. However, something is clear. The local neighborhood’s sense of security must be accommodated, since we do not want to have conflict with our neighborhood in managing the refugee issues,” he continued.
Presently, there are 976 foreign refugees residing in Pekanbaru.
Numerous refugees have actually even been remaining at some community homes for 7 years, however they are yet to get any citizenship status from third countries, such as Australia and Canada, stated authorities.
At the very same time, the birth rate amongst refugee families is fairly high, they added. (INE)
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