{"id":9425,"date":"2018-05-02T11:29:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T09:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/?p=9425"},"modified":"2018-05-02T11:29:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T09:29:37","slug":"pressure-to-return-afghan-refugees-protest-at-indonesian-detention-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/2018\/05\/pressure-to-return-afghan-refugees-protest-at-indonesian-detention-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressure to return? Afghan refugees protest at Indonesian detention centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n

Out of money and out of options, the families camped outside Indonesia\u2019s Kalideres detention centre are feeling the pressure<\/p>\n

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Hazara asylum seeker Sharmila Attaie, 10, in a makeshift shelter outside the Kalideres immigration detention centre in Java. She lives on the street with her brother Farid and their family. Photograph: Kate Lamb<\/p><\/div>\n

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It has been 58 days.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how long Farid Attaie has been sleeping on the footpath outside an immigration detention centre in Kalideres, West Jakarta, with his parents, five siblings, and another Hazara family of three.<\/p>\n

Less than 20 metres from where they sleep the gates of the full-to-the-brim detention facility are topped with spirals of barbed wire designed to stop people from getting out.<\/p>\n

But Farid and more than 300 homeless asylum seekers and refugees camped out on the street in makeshift tents of tarpaulin and bamboo are trying to do the opposite. They want to get in.<\/p>\n

After years in limbo in\u00a0Indonesia<\/a>\u00a0this is the end of the line \u2013 their money has run out and they have nowhere to go.<\/p>\n

In the past asylum seekers would arrive in Indonesia from countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Iraq, hoping to board a boat to Australia.<\/p>\n

But only a handful of boats have made it to Australian shores in the past three and a half years, and the few asylum seekers who have reached Australia have found themselves exiled \u2013 again \u2013 to languish indefinitely in Nauru and Papua New Guinea.<\/p>\n

Refugees here are now hoping to be approved for third-country resettlement. But globally each year, less than 1% of refugees get that chance.<\/p>\n

For the 13,885 asylum seekers and refugees in Indonesia, the walls have been steadily closing in.<\/p>\n

In recent months the United Nations high commissioner for refugees has told them they are unlikely to ever be resettled.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t know for how many years we will be here,\u201d says Farid, 20, as motorbikes and cars spray dust and fumes into his roadside shelter, \u201cLast month UNHCR said never will you move to another country. And maybe you will be here for always.\u201d<\/p>\n

Farid\u2019s family, apple farmers from Afghanistan\u2019s Wardak province, fled their homeland after his eldest brother was shot dead by insurgents last year. After 10 months in Indonesia their money has gone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n