Refugee Issue
PNG government vows to look after Papua refugees
By ABC Radio Australia
Jan 12, 2008, 20:00

PNG government vows to look after Papua refugees

ABC Radio Australia
Last Updated 11/01/2008, 00:38:58
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/s2136019.htm

Papua New Guinea says it will not deport a group of refugees from the
Indonesian province of Papua, but will look after them.
Our reporter in Port Moresby, Firmin Nanol, reports that PNG's Acting Prime Minister says the government has found land in the capital and will help them resettle.

Dr Puka Temu says they were given permissive residency status and they could
not claim asylum in a third country.

The more than 100 refugees, including women and children, have been living
at PNG's Boroko police station-following the death of a PNG court magistrate
- who was allegedly killed by two of the refugees last October.

The PNG government has urged them to move out of the police station.




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