JAKARTA – Indonesia will by next week open a new coronavirus emergency hospital on the uninhabited island of Galang, where authorities have repurposed a former Vietnam war era refugee camp as ...

An exhibition at a museum located in the former refugee camp on Indonesia’s Galang Island, which from 1975 to 1996 housed around 250,000 refugees from Indochina. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Annayu ...

In the early 1980s, hundreds of thousands of Indochinese refugees were placed on Galang Island, in the northwest of Indonesia. In 2013, a plan to forcibly resettle refugees on the impoverished and ...

he Galang Island special infection hospital task force in Riau Islands officially ceased its operation on Wednesday, but dozens of health workers complain that they have yet to be paid their meal ...

But Indonesia intends to revamp the site as a ... “We warmly welcome their wish to promote this on Galang Island internationally, because it is the only site which is still well maintained.

VOA's Ahadian Utama has more. It’s very quiet these days, on Galang Island, a small island some 40 kilometers from the main island of Batam in Indonesia's Riau Islands, and only around 84 ...

Jakarta (AsiaNews) – Fr Chrisanctus Paschalis Saturnus, a priest from the Diocese of Pangkal Pinang, on Galang Island ... against all religious faiths." Indonesia’s National Human Rights ...

JAKARTA, April 1 (Reuters) - Indonesia will by next week open a new coronavirus emergency hospital on the uninhabited island of Galang, where authorities have repurposed a former Vietnam war era ...

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