Indonesian officials say about 140 weak and hungry Rohingya Muslims, mostly women and children, are on a wooden boat anchored about 1 mile off the coast of Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh, and local residents refused to allow them onto land.

Approximately 140 Rohingya refugees, primarily women and children, are stranded off Indonesia's Aceh province. After a perilous journey from Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, tensions rise as local communities deny them landing.

Jakarta. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has urged the Indonesian government to rescue a boat adrift off the western coast of Aceh, carrying more than 100 Rohingya refugees, including women and children.

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Around 140 Rohingya refugees, primarily women and children, are stranded on a boat off the coast of Indonesia's Aceh province. Facing a community that refuses to let them land, they endure dire conditions.

A boat carrying about 100 Rohingya refugees has been left stranded off the coast of north-western Indonesia, with at least one person dead as immigration authorities in Aceh province decide whether to allow the group to come ashore.

The United Nations refugee agency has appealed to Indonesia's government to rescue a boat languishing off its western coast packed with more than 100 Rohingya refugees including women and children.