'Stop playing politics': refugees stuck in Indonesia rally against UNHCR for chronic waiting
- Written by: Chrisanthi Giotis, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Communication, University of Technology Sydney
One evening last month, the young man from Afghanistan, of Hazara ethnicity, arrived in Jakarta. His people-smuggler dropped him at the UNHCR entrance reserved for refugees, where he was told to wait.
The next day, mid-morning, he was still outside waiting to speak to someone. He was too afraid to give me his name or even his age, but he appeared...