The Indonesian Solution Fact Sheet - by Project Safecom

After almost four weeks of refusing to leave, the 78 Tamil asylum seekers onboard the Australian customs ship, the "Ocean Viking", are now in a detention centre at Tanjung Pinang, Indonesia. Women and children are being housed within the detention centre.

In a fantastic victory, they have been promised that those with UNHCR status (i.e. the 37 who hold UNHCR refugee cards) will be resettled in Australia with 4-6 weeks. Others found to be refugees will be resettled within 12 weeks. Some have been stranded in Indonesia for over four years.
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