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26 Australia-bound asylum seekers held in Indonesia

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February 20, 2013, 12:02 am TWN

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JAKARTA -- Indonesian police have arrested 26 Sri Lankan asylum seekers who were stranded after their boat hit a reef as they tried to reach Australia's Christmas Island, an official said Tuesday.

Based on a tip-off from local fishermen, police arrested the 17 men and 6 women, as well as three children, off an island in Jakarta's Thousand Islands chain on Monday morning, senior police officer Bungin Misalayuk told AFP.

“They are all Sri Lankan nationals who planned to sail to Christmas Island. Their boat was stranded at Tidung Island,” he said, adding that the wooden boat's captain and crew were gone when police arrived at the site.

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