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Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi is one of the participants of "Working Lunch on Rohingya Crisis" that was held by England and French during the 73rd UN General Assembly high level meeting in New York, USA on Monday (24/9/2018). According to the press release received by Voice of Indonesia on Tuesday (25/9), Retno Marsudi stated that Indonesia and International community will continue to observe the MOU between Bangladesh and Myanmar on Rohignya ethnic repatriation cooperation. This cooperation is hoped to fulfill Rohingya refugees rights in Bangladesh so they can return to Myanmar. Moreover , Marsudi said that there are several steps needed before the repatriation process is done such as creating conducive environment, security insurance and trust among Myanmar and Bangladesh.

“Well the concrete steps can be divided into several preparation steps. The preparation is if we talk about enabling environment so the environment has to be prepared until they return. Security assurance is very important. Building shelters is important too. And now enabling environment is taking place so the repatriation needs to be done immediately. Yesterday on the meeting, Bangladesh and Myanmar have stated trust is a very valuable asset to speed up the repatriation because if there's trust there is nothing can stop repatriation,” Retno Marsudi said.

Furthermore, Retno Marsudi said that the longer Rohingya ethnic stayed in refugees camp the situation will not get better. Because the camp condition is not well and make the refugees psychological conditions depressed. This of course can be a gap for the hard ideology or radical to enter and influence the refugees. Retno also reminded that repatriation process was followed up by inclusive life creation including supporting economy development for Rohingya.//Reza/trans: NK