Refugees in Indonesia
3,079 asylum applications by refugees were received in 2016 in Indonesia - according to UNHCR. Most of them came from Afghanistan, Nigeria and from Somalia. A total of 3,325 decisions have been made on initial applications. Which were around 93% answered positively. 7 percent of asylum applications have been rejected in the first instance. Most successful have been the applications of refugees from Burma and from Somalia.In a second table below you find the refugees, who fled from Indonesia and made their asylum application in other countries.
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Development of incoming asylum applications [in Country] 2000 to 2016
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 foreign refugees in Indonesia
The total number of initial and continuing applications refers to the year 2016. 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.New Applications | Reviews | |||||||||
| Origin | applied | accepted | rejected | acceptance rate | applied | accepted | rejected | acceptance rate | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | 1,162 | 1,980 | 61 | 97.0 % | 73 | 84 | 9 | 90.3 % | ||
| Nigeria | 612 | 0 | 16 | 0.0 % | 16 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Somalia | 483 | 242 | 0 | 100.0 % | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 % | ||
| Iraq | 286 | 195 | 0 | 100.0 % | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Sudan | 101 | 71 | 0 | 100.0 % | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.0 % | ||
| Sri Lanka | 88 | 54 | 52 | 50.9 % | 52 | 11 | 62 | 15.1 % | ||
| Burma | 83 | 330 | 0 | 100.0 % | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Yemen | 49 | 6 | 0 | 100.0 % | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Iran | 30 | 49 | 38 | 56.3 % | 38 | 9 | 58 | 13.4 % | ||
| unknown | 26 | 83 | 0 | 100.0 % | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Cameroon | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Eritrea | 22 | 5 | 0 | 100.0 % | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Ethiopia | 20 | 17 | 42 | 28.8 % | 43 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Bangladesh | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Syria | 16 | 12 | 0 | 100.0 % | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Pakistan | 14 | 63 | 9 | 87.5 % | 9 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Egypt | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| India | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Libya | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Angola | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Turkey | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Totals | 3,079 | 3,107 | 218 | 93.4 % | 231 | 104 | 140 | 42.6 % | ||
Asylum applications of refugees from IndonesiaIndonesia is one of the countries, were refugees are not only migratiing in. Only in the year 2016 there have been 2,820 asylum applications, which were received for citizens from Indonesia in other countries. Most successful have been the applications in Malaysia and in the United States. | ||||||||||
New Applications | Reviews | |||||||||
| Destination | applied | accepted | rejected | acceptance rate | applied | accepted | rejected | acceptance rate | ||
| Japan | 1,829 | 0 | 1,742 | 0.0 % | 1,229 | 0 | 290 | 0.0 % | ||
| United States | 405 | 24 | 0 | 100.0 % | 7 | 14 | 0 | 100.0 % | ||
| Australia | 318 | 26 | 101 | 20.5 % | 130 | 6 | 28 | 17.6 % | ||
| Malaysia | 195 | 51 | 0 | 100.0 % | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Canada | 32 | 10 | 5 | 66.7 % | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Greece | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| United Kingdom | 10 | 0 | 6 | 0.0 % | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Finland | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Germany | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| New Zealand | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Ireland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| South Korea | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.0 % | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Sweden | 0 | 6 | 0 | 100.0 % | 8 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 % | ||
| Totals | 2,820 | 117 | 1,861 | 5.9 % | 1,379 | 20 | 323 | 5.8 % | ||