Indonesia denies migrants asylum

Indonesia will deny political asylum to 193 migrants from Burma and Bangladesh who are being held at a navy base after being found stranded off the country’s western coast.c

Indonesia will deny political asylum to 193 migrants from Burma and Bangladesh who are being held at a navy base after being found stranded off the country’s western coast.

Most of the group identified themselves as Rohingya, members of a Muslim ethnic group that fled persecution in Burma. Tens of thousands of Rohingyas live in camps in Bangladesh, where they have been granted refugee status.