Medan, NU Online
The Indonesian government has been urged not to deport Rohingya asylum seekers who were stranded in Aceh Province recently.
"The foreign affairs minister should not deport the Rohingya Muslim refugees and should not categorized them as `economic migrants`," dr. Djoko Wiyono, head of the Ukhuwah Jama`ah Muslimin (Hizbullah), said here on Friday.<>
Wiyono also urged the Indonesian government to form an independent fact finding team to investigate factors forcing the Rohingya Muslims to flee their country, Myanmar.
He called on the Indonesian government and the Aceh provincial administration to give the refugees protection, clothes, food, medicines and other assistance especially for children and elders.
Hizbullah, according to Wiyono, has provided the Rohingya Muslims being given shelter at Kuala Idi, East Aceh District, with some assistance consisting of medicines, clothes and Al-Qur`an copies.
The Muslim organization also protested and condemned the Myanmar military regime for prosecuting the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
He said that the Rohingya Muslims had been intimidated, tortured, kidnapped, raped and even killed. Such ill-treatments were crimes against humanity, he said.
"Those actions are against the Human Rights and have hurt the feeling of the Muslims throughout the world," he said.
Hizbullah urged the international world to pressure the Myanmar government to give the Rohingyas the rights to live and treat them well.
Wiyono said that the health condition of the Rohingya refugees in East Aceh has improved and a number of Islamic boarding schools have expressed their willingness to accommodate the Myanmar Muslims.
Over the past one month, Aceh Province has received nearly 400 Rohingya refugees. Some 193 Rohingya boat people got stranded in Sabang, Aceh on January 7, 2008, and another 198 Rohingyas reached the coast of East Aceh after 21 days at sea, with some of them in a critical condition on February 3, 2008. (ant/dar)
The Indonesian government has been urged not to deport Rohingya asylum seekers who were stranded in Aceh Province recently.
"The foreign affairs minister should not deport the Rohingya Muslim refugees and should not categorized them as `economic migrants`," dr. Djoko Wiyono, head of the Ukhuwah Jama`ah Muslimin (Hizbullah), said here on Friday.<>
Wiyono also urged the Indonesian government to form an independent fact finding team to investigate factors forcing the Rohingya Muslims to flee their country, Myanmar.
He called on the Indonesian government and the Aceh provincial administration to give the refugees protection, clothes, food, medicines and other assistance especially for children and elders.
Hizbullah, according to Wiyono, has provided the Rohingya Muslims being given shelter at Kuala Idi, East Aceh District, with some assistance consisting of medicines, clothes and Al-Qur`an copies.
The Muslim organization also protested and condemned the Myanmar military regime for prosecuting the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
He said that the Rohingya Muslims had been intimidated, tortured, kidnapped, raped and even killed. Such ill-treatments were crimes against humanity, he said.
"Those actions are against the Human Rights and have hurt the feeling of the Muslims throughout the world," he said.
Hizbullah urged the international world to pressure the Myanmar government to give the Rohingyas the rights to live and treat them well.
Wiyono said that the health condition of the Rohingya refugees in East Aceh has improved and a number of Islamic boarding schools have expressed their willingness to accommodate the Myanmar Muslims.
Over the past one month, Aceh Province has received nearly 400 Rohingya refugees. Some 193 Rohingya boat people got stranded in Sabang, Aceh on January 7, 2008, and another 198 Rohingyas reached the coast of East Aceh after 21 days at sea, with some of them in a critical condition on February 3, 2008. (ant/dar)
