Jakarta Globe, May 29, 2015
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| A Rohingya boy from Myanmar is photographed with his mother during police identification procedures at a newly set up confinement area in Bayeun, Aceh, on May 20. (AFP Photo/Romeo Gacad) |
Jakarta.
Qatar will donate Rp 660 billion ($49 million) to help Indonesia provide
shelter for Rohingya refugees.
Foreign
Affairs Minister Retno L.P. Marsudi said that at a meeting in Doha, she had
spoken with the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, about the
regional efforts to help the refugees.
Most if not
all of the people made it to Indonesian shores in recent weeks are Muslims.
Indonesia
currently receives aid from the International Organization of Migration, which
has allocated $26 million to help refugees stranded in Southeast Asia.
“The
donation is in a form of financial aid from Qatar to Indonesia to help cover
expenses allocated for Rohingya refugees,” Tamim said on Friday, as quoted by
newsportal Detik.com.
President
Joko Widodo said last week that Indonesia would need international aid to cover
expenses it would incur in hosting refugees, most of whom are fleeing
persecution in Buddhist-majority Myanmar.
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