Twenty Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers onboard an Australian Customs ship has agreed to disembark. Confirming this news, Indonesia's Director General of Immigration said, the decision came when Australian government today offered all of them to resettle within 12 weeks. The official said that 20 of them are now willing to be placed in an Australian-funded detention centre in Tanjung Pinang, to avoid detention in Indonesia. Seventy-eight Australian-bound Sri Lankans have been refusing to leave the Oceanic Viking, which is docked in Indonesian waters for over three weeks.
News On AIR | November 12, 2009 6:30 PM
20 Lankan Tamil asylum seekers agree to leave Oceanic Viking