Arakan News Agency
JAKARTA, Indonesia – Since Indonesia agreed to house Muslim Rohingya refugees stranded off its shores — albeit temporarily — locals, countries and donor organizations have been offering financial help.…
The Muslim community in the north Sumatran province where most of the Rohingya are based in temporary shelters has mobilized donations of food, water and moral support — all desperately needed after the ordeal the boat people have been through at sea — but it has still not been enough.
This week, Aceh Governor Zaini Abdullah asked the federal government to immediately distribute funding as the province lacked a special budget to tackle the migrants’ needs.
“I do not remember how much, but we have spent a lot,” Metro TV quoted Abdullah as saying during a visit to the presidential palace in Jakarta.
On Saturday, non-profit humanitarian aid organization AusRelief handed over donations to some of the 1,039 Rohingya housed in Aceh.
“We sought and were granted government and military police approval — to enter and distribute aid to the Langsa Rohingya refugee camp,” the organization said on its Facebook page
“We organized and delivered aid parcels to every person in the camp. Best of all, we came away with an agreement with the North Aceh Government to assist and support the Rohingya refugees for two years.”
Source :newsfultoncounty
