Asylum seekers and refugees in Indonesia: Problems and potentials

Ali, Muzafar; Briskman, Linda; Fiske, Lucy

doi:10.5130/ccs.v8i2.4883

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“…A large percentage of refugees in Indonesia are ethnically Hazara, Shi'ite Muslims originating from Sunni-dominant Afghanistan and Pakistan. Historically, Hazaras have been subject to systematic persecution in Afghanistan [10]. For fear of being targeted and persecuted by the Taliban, they fled their home country.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Children Psychosocial Development: An Effort to Manage the Knowledge on Child Refugees in Indonesia

Chrisiani¹,

Imelda²

2019

Proceedings of the Proceedings of 1st Workshop on Environmental Science, Society, and Technology, WESTECH 2018, December 8th, 2

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Stateless refugees in Indonesia, especially children, encounter long-time obscurity and scarcity of resources before being placed in a destination country. As an effort to manage the knowledge of child refugees, this study discusses how parents contribute to their psychosocial development. This study uses qualitative research with indepth interviews and document studies. Interviews were conducted with refugee children who were Cisarua Refugee Learning Center (CRLC) students, aged 14-16, their parents, and teachers in West Java. This study suggests that, first, refugee children were advanced in psychosocial development for their ages, especially in the development of vision, ideals, and views of the future. Second, parents' socialization and the environment greatly affected refugee children's psychosocial development. Third, the environment integrated into the community-based organization (CRLC) contributed effectively to their development. Therefore, there must be family empowerment and institutionalization of community-based organizations in refugee camps for stateless children to develop properly.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Children Psychosocial Development: An Effort to Manage the Knowledge on Child Refugees in Indonesia

Chrisiani¹,

Imelda²

2019

Proceedings of the Proceedings of 1st Workshop on Environmental Science, Society, and Technology, WESTECH 2018, December 8th, 2

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“…They are transported to Medan after stayed temporarily in Aceh [9].Dinsos was supported by IOM to provide shelter and daily need for the unaccompanied minor. However, Indonesia does not ratify the refugee convention [10]. Based on the informant, this status contributed complicated position for local government since the program managed by special unit not available unit such as children and elderly unit.…”

Section: International Fund For Child Protectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

International Fund on Child Protection and Roles of Local Government

Sirait¹,

Rosmalinda²

2019

Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 1st Workshop Multimedia Education, Learning, Assessment and Its Implementation in Game An

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Convention on the right of the child (CRC) states the obligations of state party in article 4 which provides opportunities for state party such as Indonesia to have international cooperation. This paper figures out research results which conducted for 8 months in the Sumatera Utara province. The objective of the study was to determine the role of local government in the context of international fund for child protection program. There are three proposed questions concerning program, funding, and supervision including monitoring. In depth interviews and focus group discussion (FGD) involved local governments (OPDs) and agency for regional development (BAPPEDA). The study obtained information as follow: (a) Child protection programs performed by local government in collaboration with CSOs; (b) lack of international fund for Child protection managed by local government; and (c) supervision and monitoring are conducted internally or by up level of OPD. As recommendation, the local government needs to collaborate further with local CSOs in child protection including the program which supported by international fund(s).

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“…About 6,000 asylum seekers and refugees were living independently in Indonesia in 2017 (Anwar, 2017). They have avoided detention because they could afford to provide for themselves, often renting apartments in Jakarta or rooms and houses in and around Puncak, a mountain holiday resort area outside Jakarta (Church World Service, 2013; Briskman and Fiske, 2016). They face different problems and challenges from those of asylum seekers and refugees in detention and community shelters but the Presidential Regulation ignores them.…”

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confidence: 99%

Stalemate: Refugees in Indonesia — Presidential Regulation No 125 of 2016

Missbach¹,

Adiputera²,

Prabandari³

et al. 2018

CILIS Policy Paper Series

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This policy paper examines Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No 125 of 2016 on the Treatment of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Indonesia, signed by President Joko Widodo on 31 December 2016. This long-awaited regulation reiterates Indonesia’s long-held position on its responsibilities towards asylum seekers and refugees. Perceiving itself as a transit country only, Indonesia attempts to protect refugees but welcomes them only for terminable period. This policy paper analyses the content of this Presidential Regulation, pointing out its strengths and weaknesses, in order to alert policy-makers to the remaining gaps in the protection of refugees. Although it makes some progress in regard to rescuing refugees in emergency situations, our analysis concludes that the Presidential Regulation still lacks substantial commitment to the effective protection of refugees. Rather than offer any durable solution for asylum seekers and refugees staying on in Indonesia, the current policies create ‘permanent temporariness’. Not only are resettlement options in safe third countries shrinking, but voluntary repatriation to their conflict-ridden countries of origin is often not feasible. So long as local integration into the Indonesian society, which the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) would like as a third durable solution, is not an option, refugees and asylum seekers will continue to suffer the most in the current stalemate.

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Asylum seekers and refugees in Indonesia: Problems and potentials

Cited by 17 publications

References 5 publications

Children Psychosocial Development: An Effort to Manage the Knowledge on Child Refugees in Indonesia

Children Psychosocial Development: An Effort to Manage the Knowledge on Child Refugees in Indonesia

International Fund on Child Protection and Roles of Local Government

Stalemate: Refugees in Indonesia — Presidential Regulation No 125 of 2016

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