Asylum applications and refugees from Indonesia

1,082 People from Indonesia fled and applied for asylum in other countries in 2020, according to UNHCR data. The most destination countries hereof have been Australia, United States and New Zealand. Overall, 94 percent of the asylum applications have been rejected. The most successful have been the refugees in the United Kingdom and in Malaysia.

A total of 202 people fled to the United States from Indonesia. With 18 positive decisions, 18.00 percent of all new applications have been accepted.

In a second listing below you find the refugees, who came from foreign countries and made their appication in Indonesia.

› Refugee countries by origin and destination

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Development of asylum applications from citizens from Indonesia 2000 to 2020

The top line represents the total number of asylum applications (first applications + reviews). Below there are the number of recognized refugees (green) and the rejected applications (red).

Asylum applications of refugees from Indonesia

The total number of initial and continuing applications refers to the year 2020. Please note that the number of decisions (acceptations or rejections) does not have to sum up with the number of applications, because there may still have been open cases from previous years. Also they dont have to be closed within the same calendar year. In addition, asylum procedures can also be closed, if the applicant disappeared or withdrew the application.

Destination	applied	accepted	rejected	acceptance rate
	New Applications
Australia	605	14	664	2.1 %
United States	202	18	82	18.0 %
New Zealand	111	0	0
Greece	71	0	50	0.0 %
United Kingdom	41	12	0	100.0 %
Malaysia	32	11	0	100.0 %
South Korea	15	0	10	0.0 %
Sweden	5	0	0
Belgium	0	0	5	0.0 %
Switzerland	0	0	5	0.0 %
Totals	1,082	55	816	6.3 %

Destination	applied	accepted	rejected	acceptance rate
	Reviews
Australia	547	0	78	0.0 %
United States	168	15	17	46.9 %
New Zealand	0	0	0
Greece	15	0	14	0.0 %
United Kingdom	0	0	0
Malaysia	0	0	0
South Korea	0	0	0
Sweden	0	0	0
Belgium	0	0	0
Switzerland	0	0	0
Totals	730	15	109	12.1 %

Asylum applications of foreign refugees in Indonesia

Indonesia is not only a country from which many people escape. There are also refugees from other countries, who apply for asylum here and hope for a better future. Only in the year 2020 there have been 571 asylum applications from refugees of other countries. The most successful have been the refugees from Afghanistan and from Somalia.

Origin	applied	accepted	rejected	acceptance rate
	New Applications
Burma	405	0	0
Afghanistan	40	89	0	100.0 %
Sri Lanka	33	0	5	0.0 %
West Bank	22	0	0
Yemen	19	15	0	100.0 %
Somalia	17	75	0	100.0 %
Cameroon	7	0	5	0.0 %
Sudan	7	5	0	100.0 %
Eritrea	6	48	0	100.0 %
Iran	5	5	5	50.0 %
Iraq	5	14	0	100.0 %
Libya	5	0	0
Bangladesh	0	0	5	0.0 %
Ethiopia	0	0	5	0.0 %
Totals	571	251	25	90.9 %

Origin	applied	accepted	rejected
	Reviews
Burma	0	0	0
Afghanistan	0	0	0
Sri Lanka	5	0	0
West Bank	0	0	0
Yemen	0	0	0
Somalia	0	0	0
Cameroon	5	0	0
Sudan	0	0	0
Eritrea	0	0	0
Iran	7	0	0
Iraq	0	0	0
Libya	0	0	0
Bangladesh	5	0	0
Ethiopia	0	0	0
Totals	22	0	0

National migrant stock from 1960 to 2015

In 2015 a total of 328,846 migrants lived in Indonesia. These are all residents who live permanently in the country but were born in another country. The amount includes granted refugees but no asylum seekers. The data are based on the results of censuses, as well as on estimates and projections of the United Nations Population Division.

(Values of the graph in millions of immigrants)

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