SABANG, Indonesia: More than 200 Rohingya refugees were huddled on the beaches of a remote Indonesian island on Wednesday after weeks adrift on a wooden boat, with the United Nations trying to resist efforts by locals to push the members of the persecuted Myanmar minority back to sea.

The latest arrivals were part of more than 1,000 desperate and exhausted members of the persecuted Myanmar minority who landed on the shores of Aceh province in northwestern Indonesia in the last week.

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