AKARTA, KOMPAS.com - UNHCR Office in Jakarta Indonesia has been dealing with 1782 refugees and asylum seekers since the beginning of the year 2009. Thousands of immigrants are estimated to be in Indonesia to manage the status as refugees or asylum seekers.
Senior Protection Officer United Nations High Commission for Refugees Affairs (UNHCR) Indonesia, Francis Teoh, in a seminar in Jakarta on Thursday (18 / 6), explains, the process continues to demand black immigrants to obtain refugee status according to international law.
The largest number of searchers get asylum status from the UNHCR in Indonesia comes from Afghanistan. The amount of the largest refugee status comes from Iraq, 220 people.
"Terms of the binding effect of all the nations of the world that ratified the convention and protocol on refugees. UNHCR offices in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, and Malaysia to do the same job. We can not prevent them entering any country evacuate because someone is on humanitarian reasons, "said Teoh.
For example, Teoh added that UNHCR Office in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia to process 45,000 refugees status for this. Description is at once disputed the allegations of immigrant origin flooding Afghanistan and Myanmar to Indonesia because tutupnya Office UNHCR Malaysia.
Previously, the National Central Bureau (NCB) Interpol Indonesia menengarai have an 7,000-Afghanistan refugees in Malaysia is waiting for entry to Indonesia transit before continuing a trip to Australia as a destination end.
Strict selection
However, UNHCR Indonesia still apply strict selection in the status of refugees or asylum seekers. "They are suspected as active combatants or involved in crimes against humanity and terrorism will not get refugee status or asylum seekers," said Teoh.
Refugees and asylum seekers get the assistance that the size of the monthly allowance according to the regional minimum wage in Jakarta. The amount of the allowance varies depending on gender and age of the recipient. Refugees who receive assistance do not be looking for work in the jurisdiction of the Republic of Indonesia.
Long time to manage the status of refugees or asylum seekers, said Teoh, usually lasts at least thirty days. A number of refugees who have lived many years in Indonesia because the country has not got to the end. UNHCR offices in the Indonesia World Refugees Day events also carry a warning on the Safari Hotel, Cisarua, Bogor, Selasa (23 / 6), together with refugees. (Ong)
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