Last year saw a record number of Rohingya refugees set off by sea from the camps in southeastern Bangladesh.
At least 76 Rohingya asylum seekers have come ashore in Indonesia’s Aceh province, local officials said yesterday, a reminder of the humanitarian emergency that continues to unfold on the border between Bangladesh and Myanmar.
According to report by the Associated Press, which quoted local police chief Nova Suryandaru, a small wooden boat carrying “more than 100” people, most of them women and children, ran aground in Pereulak region in East Aceh on Wednesday.
The landing came after
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