"We've been working with the UNHCR (United Nations agencies dealing with refugees) and IOM (International Organization for Migration), we already take care of them, both in the form of the provision of shelter, housing, food, and medicines necessary oabt if their medical condition is not good, "said Foreign Minister told reporters after a cabinet session, at the President's office, Jakarta, Tuesday (19/5/2015) afternoon.
According to the Foreign Minister, at least the data up per March 2015, there were refugees in Indonesia whose number is 11 941. He considered, this is a large number. They are refugees who are being verified, and are awaiting placement period (resettlement) to third countries.
Secretary of judging, the refugee problem is a problem of irregular migrants, not a matter of one or two countries, but has a regional problem, and in other places also happen that it also becomes an international issue.
Therefore, Indonesia would propose a few things. First, we must resolve the root causes of so many refugees into Southeast Asia. And secondly, continued Foreign Minister, we also need to work together, either with UNHCR, IOM, and related parties, either in the form of country of sources (countries of origin), transit countries, and destination countries, to accelerate the verification process, its resettlement, etc. ,
"For nearly 12 thousand earlier, every year a maximum of resettlement done for 500 people. That is, with the numbers 12 thousand, if there is no acceleration of the process of resettlement, then this problem will be solved 12 years, "said the Foreign Minister.
Third, continued Foreign Minister, this is the problem of human trafficking, human trafficking, means need cooperation between countries hard to really solve the problem that caused the pengungsia flow, and also should be directed to be completed as a transnational crime (transnational crime).
"So that is the position of Indonesia and the premises as a country not party to the Convention on Refugee in 1951, what has been done Indonesia is already extra mile, beyond what should have been done by Indonesia," concluded the Foreign Minister.
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