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January 5, 2025 | 11:47 am
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Malaysia's coast guard has escorted two boats carrying nearly 300 undocumented Myanmar migrants from its waters. The refugees were found exhausted and lacking food and water, Director-General Mohd Rosli Abdullah said.
Authorities provided the migrants with food and clean drinking water after the boats were found on Friday, Jan. 3, 2025. The boats were two nautical miles southwest of the coast of the Malaysian resort island of Langkawi.
"We are also working closely with Thai law enforcement agencies to obtain additional information on the movement of the boats," Rosli Abdullah said in a statement on Saturday.
The coast guard did not say whether the migrants were Rohingya, an ethnic minority in Myanmar. On Friday, Malaysian police detained 196 undocumented Myanmar migrants after their boat landed on a beach in Langkawi.
Police said all the migrants, including 71 children and 57 women, were believed to be Rohingya. All detained migrants were taken for documentation and health checks, police said in a separate statement Friday.
For years, scores of Rohingya have boarded rickety wooden boats to try to reach neighboring countries, including Muslim-majority Malaysia, Indonesia and Bangladesh, as well as Thailand. The influx of refugees has occurred mainly during calmer seas from October to April.
Malaysia, which does not recognize refugee status, has in recent years turned away boats carrying Rohingya refugees, holding thousands in overcrowded detention centers in a crackdown on undocumented migrants.
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