300 refugees children in Aceh without parents

JAKARTA<
As many as 300 child and  teenage refugees
in Aceh are without parents according to
Thomas Vargas ,the representative of the
United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR) to Indonesia

"Many are not accompanied by their parents
and so one of our missions is to reunite them
with their parents"Indonesia 's Antara news
agency quoted him as saying after attending
the signing of an agreement with the Indonesian
red cross here on Friday,

He remarked that the refugees in Aceh belonging
to different backgrounds have various stories
to share ,Most of them are asylum seekers from
the Rohingya ethnic group,Many of the are also
looking for their closet relatives he added,

According to data ,most of the refugees planned
to go t Malaysia to find their closest relatives,
but they were  clubbed along with the other groups
heading to Aceh in Indonseia

The UNHCR and PMI will make an inventory
of the refugees and help them reunite with their
closest reatvives and if possible with their families
he said ,

The UNHCR  for Indonesia will provide training in
vocational skills to the refugees who decide to stay
for the long term in other counties,

He was optimistic that by imparting such skills,
they would become more  confident and would
help in offering them a psychological boost,

This will offer them a new ray of hope,and they
would not become a burden on the recipient
country"he added
BERNAMA