UNHCR's Urge on Indonesia Over Rohingya Is Needless: Scholar

While the Afghan refugees were temporarily accommodated in several parts of Indonesia, the Indonesian people treated them well and provided assistance for various needs, he continued.

Sudarnoto said the UNHCR must succeed in convincing asylum-giving countries to immediately open up and accept refugees.

"The impasse has been at the UNHCR, and this must be broken immediately. Therefore, diplomatic talks must be carried out more intensively and with certainty so that in the near future, there will be measurable concrete steps for the settlement of this refugee issue," he said. (ant/dil/mcr20/jpnn)

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