Over 370 migrants taken to Indonesia

Langsa (Indonesia): Over 370 Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants stranded at sea for months were rescued and taken to Indonesia amid growing crisis confronting Southeast Asia, officials said on Wednesday.
“They were suffering dehydration, they are weak and starving,” Khairul Nove, head of Langsa Search and Rescue Agency in Indonesia’s eastern Aceh province, said of one of the boats of migrants.
The rescue came just hours after Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said late on Wednesday the country had “given more than it should” to help hundreds of Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants stranded on boats by human traffickers.
Even before the crisis, nearly 12,000 migrants were being sheltered in Indonesia awaiting resettlement, she said, with most of those Rohingya Muslims who have fled persecution in Buddhist-majority Myanmar.