Ethnic Rohingya girls and youngsters sit on the ground upon arrival at a short lived shelter after their boat landed in Pidie, Aceh province, Indonesia, Monday, Dec. 26, 2022. A second group in two days of weak and exhausted Rohingya Muslims landed on a seaside in Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh on Monday after weeks at sea, officers mentioned.

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Ethnic Rohingya girls and youngsters sit on the ground upon arrival at a short lived shelter after their boat landed in Pidie, Aceh province, Indonesia, Monday, Dec. 26, 2022. A second group in two days of weak and exhausted Rohingya Muslims landed on a seaside in Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh on Monday after weeks at sea, officers mentioned.

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PIDIE, Indonesia — A United Nations company is searching for details about the voyage of over 100 Rohingya Muslim refugees who landed on an Indonesian seaside this week, and warned Tuesday that there’ll probably be extra.

A distressing video circulated extensively in social media confirmed the dehydrated and exhausted Rohingya, crumpled weakly and emaciated, many crying for assist.

At least 185 males, girls and youngsters disembarked from a rickety wood boat Monday at nightfall on Ujong Pie seaside at Muara Tiga, a coastal village in Aceh’s Pidie district, mentioned native police chief Fauzi, who goes by a single identify.

“They are very weak because of dehydration and exhaustion after weeks at sea,” Fauzi mentioned.

Muhammad Rafki Syukri, the Protection Associate at United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, mentioned the company would supply Rohingya language translators and counseling to find out in the event that they have been from the group of 190 Rohingya who have been reported by the U.N. to be drifting in a small boat within the Andaman Sea for a month.

“With prolonged conflict and insecure situations in their country of origin, it is possible that the movement of refugees to find safe places will continue to grow,” he mentioned.

Chris Lewa, the director of the Arakan Project, which works in help of Myanmar’s Rohingya, confirmed Tuesday that the boat that landed Monday on Ujong Pie seaside was from the group of 190 Rohingya.

But Syukri mentioned the UNHCR couldn’t confirm that data and was nonetheless coordinating with governments within the area.

“But we will continue to search for further information to ensure the actual data,” Syukri instructed reporters Tuesday whereas visiting the Rohingya refugees at a faculty that was closed for the vacation season in Muara Tiga village.

Lewa instructed AP by e mail that the arrivals have been amongst 5 teams of Rohingya refugees that had left Cox’s Bazar district in Bangladesh in late November by smaller boats to keep away from detection by native coast guards earlier than they have been transferred onto 5 bigger boats for his or her respective journeys.

The fourth and fifth boats “lastly landed in northern a part of Aceh, Indonesia, early Sunday and late afternoon on Monday,” Lewa mentioned, after weeks of her group pleading with south and southeast Asian nations to assist.

One of the refugees who spoke some Malay and recognized himself as Rosyid, instructed The Associated Press that they left a camp in Bangladesh on the finish of November and drifted on the open sea. He mentioned at the very least “20 of us died aboard due to high waves and sick, and their bodies were thrown into the sea.”

Myanmar safety forces have been accused of mass rapes, killings and burning of hundreds of houses belonging to Rohingya, sending them fleeing to Bangladesh and onward.

Malaysia has been a standard vacation spot for most of the refugees arriving by boat, however in addition they have been detained within the nation.

Although neighboring Indonesia isn’t a signatory to the United Nations’ 1951 Refugee Convention, the UNHCR mentioned {that a} 2016 presidential regulation offers a authorized framework governing the therapy of refugees on boats in misery close to Indonesia and helps them disembark.