Their arrival came after another boat also carrying about 150 Rohingya, a minority group who have faced persecution in Myanmar, had been stranded in Indonesia's Aceh province for

The United Nations' refugee agency called on Indonesia to let in about 150 Rohingya refugees stranded off Aceh province for almost a week, as local media reported police had arrested three people on charges of human trafficking.

Indonesian officials say about 140 weak and hungry Rohingya Muslims, mostly women and children, are on a wooden boat anchored about 1 mile off the coast of Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh, and local residents refused to allow them onto land.

Persecuted in Myanmar, thousands of Rohingya risk dangerous sea voyages each year to reach Malaysia or Indonesia

Approximately 140 Rohingya refugees, primarily women and children, are stranded off Indonesia's Aceh province. After a perilous journey from Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, tensions rise as local communities deny them landing.

Aceh Police foiled an attempt to smuggle 216 Rohingya refugees, arresting three suspects, including one who is a prisoner

A boatful of 140 Rohingyan refugees, mostly women and children, have been left stranded one mile off the coast of Indonesia as locals refuse to allow the asylum seekers to make landfall. The wooden boat,