Jakarta – It is regrettable that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Company for Migration (IOM) are not contributing in handling Rohingya refugees in Indonesia.
Performing director general of immigration at the Ministry of Law and Human Being Rights, Widodo Ekatjahjana, made the remarks in reaction to the rejection of Rohingya refugees by the community in Lhokseumawe, North Aceh, Aceh Province.
” As a result, this has created social issues in Indonesia,” Ekatjahjana said in a statement gotten in Jakarta on Friday.
” UNHCR and IOM must take a function in dealing with refugees coming from abroad. Do not escape from duty and just offer refugee certificates,” he included.
As an outcome of the issuance of certificates, he stated, the refugees can stay in Indonesia as they please. This has the potential to end up being a social problem in Indonesia, he stressed.
Widodo explained that as per Presidential Policy Number 125 of 2016 worrying the handling of foreign refugees, immigration, through Immigration Detention Centers, has an important role gathering information by examining travel files, immigration status, and identity.
The Migration Detention Center officers collaborate with the United Nations (UN) through the Workplace of the High Commissioner for Refugees in Indonesia.
For safeguarding refugees from abroad, the immigration collaborates with the local district/city federal government to bring or position refugees from where they are found to the shelter location.
” Supplying the standard rights of refugees in shelters such as clean water, food, beverage, clothes, health services, and worship centers is the duty of UNHCR and IOM as an entire,” he stated.
On November 24, head of the Class II Lhokseumawe Immigration Workplace reported that homeowners had actually contradicted the arrival of Rohingya refugees who tried to break through eviction by breaking the lock and go into the former Lhokseumawe Immigration Office in Puenteut without approval.
Far, there has actually been no further info regarding the positioning of the Rohingya ethnic group.
People in Puentuet are still standing guard in front of the former Migration Workplace constructing to expect the return of the Rohingya group.
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