UN ready to process Sri Lankan asylum seekers

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Updated October 15, 2009 19:54:31

The Indonesian Navy has handed responsibility for 255 Sri Lankan asylum seekers over to the country's immigration authorities. The ethnic Tamils were headed to Australia earlier this week, and were intercepted by the Indonesia navy after a direct request to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono from Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Staff from the United Nations refugee agency, the UNHCR, are already on the ground waiting to process the claims of the Sri Lankans.

Presenter: Simon Cullen
Speakers: Richard Towle, UNHCR regional representative

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