Seven-month ordeal at sea takes toll on Rohingya refugees in Indonesia
15 Sep 2020
UNHCR welcomes the life-saving disembarkation of 300 Rohingya refugees in Indonesia
News Comment by UNHCR Director for Asia and the Pacific, Indrika Ratwatte
7 Sep 2020
Refugees get a chance to start over in style in Jakarta
An Indonesian fashion entrepreneur's project to provide training and empower refugees aims to create new opportunities.
17 Jan 2019
Tents bring Indonesia quake survivors out of the rain
UNHCR delivery gives shelter to some 10,000 children, women and men who lost homes when a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Sulawesi last month.
29 Oct 2018
Airlift delivers shelter for Indonesia quake survivors
UNHCR flies tents to Balikpapan for distribution to survivors of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that left 80,000 out of their homes.
19 Oct 2018
UNHCR delivers aid for Indonesia earthquake survivors
19 Oct 2018
Indonesian fishermen rescue Rohingya
Local sea-faring community offer warm welcome to fleeing refugees.
30 May 2018
UNHCR thanks Indonesia and Malaysia for rescue and disembarkation of Rohingya refugees, calls on countries in the region to comply with maritime search and rescue obligations
1 May 2018
Separated by the Sea
Hundreds, if not thousands, of refugee families in South-East Asia were separated by perilous sea journeys in 2015. Meet four of them.
23 Feb 2016