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Making The Best Out Of The Worst: Utilizing Indonesia’S Existing Laws To Protect Asylum Seekers In Transit, Tanita Dhiyaan Rahmani
Making The Best Out Of The Worst: Utilizing Indonesia’S Existing Laws To Protect Asylum Seekers In Transit, Tanita Dhiyaan Rahmani
Journal of Islamic Law Studies
Being a party in the 1951 Convention on the Status Relating to Refugees and its 1967 Protocol is not an exclusive solution to legal protection of asylum seekers and refugees in Indonesia. Although the Government of Indonesia has not ratified both instruments, it has acknowledge the protection of asylum seekers and refugees under the People Consultative Assembly (MPR) Decree Number XVII Year 1998 and Law Number 37 year 1999 regarding Foreign Relations. A 2016 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported that Indonesia has become a transit destination for more than 13,000 asylum seekers and refugees, including nearly 1,000 Rohing- …