Turn of the 20th Century

Turn of the 20th Century

Around the turn of the 20th century, Cisarua € "€" expatriate Arab population, the locals say passable Arabic to become a natural destination for Iraqis fleeing Saddam Hussein. Persian-speaking Afghan Hazara and other ethnic groups followed.

These days, asylum seekers and Saudi tourists living apart, but at the same time, separate the different wealth, culture and knowledge, for some home is not an option. Asylum seekers often see Saudi Arabia and Sunni theocracy, by them, and with disdain.

$ 6,000 and $ 12,000 on a guide to cost between arriving after Indonesia "€" are often sponsored smugglers routes in Asia, the person "€" asylum seekers usually follow a well-defined path area around a dilapidated strip, provoke Jie Kesha in central Jakarta, bars and hotels. Nearby is the UNHCR office, where people put their names asylum status. Protection of an interview with reporters, usually takes many months which is in turn followed by the decision on their case, any form of long wait. Was placed in another country may take years, relatively few achieve it. In the meantime, adults are prohibited from working, and the children rarely have the opportunity to receive proper education.

Scouts traffickers scope out the area around Jalan Jie Kesha potential customers. Asylum seekers pass digital contact smugglers, they usually pass smugglersâ € ™ low-level operatives. Some asylum seekers leave days things smugglers about $ 5,000 per capita, the average cost. Some arrived in Indonesia did not catch the boat, no matter how long the process may take legal resettlement plan. Others found them too little money to travel. Others lost their nerve when they realized how they could become a sea of ​​hundreds of people died.

Cisarua people waiting, the UN bureaucratic wheels turn slowly or suddenly calls from smugglersâ Agent: Prepare your things to eat, and we leave tonight.

CISARUA people waiting, whether it is the UN's bureaucratic wheels turn slowly or suddenly calls from smugglersâ Agent: Prepare your things to eat, and we leave tonight.

Driving through Cisarua at night, you will find that any Indonesian town, the disproportionately high number of young foreign men on the chaos. Shiite Muslims from the deadly sides of the border in Afghanistan and Pakistan to form the largest group of Hazaras, they are men, in a few cases, by the Indonesian and Asian specialties. Afghans fleeing the Taliban which is usually in most of the country, which is the recovery. Pakistani Taliban fleeing another similar group, Lashkar-e - Jhangvi, killing hundreds of assassinations and bombings this year Hazara.

The young man is often used as a representative of the family, they can feed themselves in Australia assumption, maybe send some money back, eventually sponsor their relatives immigrants.

Snow streets around these activities is often due to grim news. For example, when a ship sank or disappeared in Australia, calls from relatives and acquaintances began to despair, still here. Information A "who is missing, who were detained, who escaped, who bribe their way €" move quickly.

But generally young men sleep until late in the day, the evening stroll. This angered the local government, so that the streets chief, TEDDI Pembang, all asylum-seekers trying to get down to the nearby city of Bogor.

As a local official, chief of the Kosasih said: "€ œDay night they and the night sky. Itâ € ™ s cultural differences. This is the Muslim communities where people want to sleep, they reappear on the streets, sexual harassment women.â €?

Cisarua has become one full of young and boring town.

"ŒWhat should we do, sir?"? Where asylum seekers Ghulam 拉苏尔海达 ask me. [ŒEverything, every day â € "repeats.â?

Rasul is a 17-year-old Afghan Ghazni province, the danger he and other seven Afghans share two small rooms, mostly from his home area. Last year, they have come, but only one, Zachary than Yala, 17, has embarked on a boat. This is in the same boat, boarded the last year by the Global MAILA photographer, Ali Batoor Bharat and Java-based aground.

Ali Batoor Bharat

Ali Batoor Bharat

Zachary than Yala, 17, from Afghanistanâ € ™ Ghazni Province.

The team said they did not have enough funds and sea journey appetite, so they just wait for their case to be processed by the UNHCR. Dragon cafes tend to form clumps of men spend time in the local supermarket, Brittania in front of just passing the time. One afternoon, I saw an Iranian man, accompanied by a local woman, a taxi to reach the supermarket in Jakarta. He gives a group of Hazara men and pace, talking into his cell phone, and then jump back in the car, to the town. Itâ € ™ s close, because I discovered that the actual smugglers, as well as € ™ no way to know for sure, and that is what he is.

Many asylum seekers have the same experience. "€ œNobody smugglers, where they lived, where they can be seen"? Rasul said. "We just touched by the phone.â €?

There are many things you can do here a young man, if he has some money, because they do a small number. Although most of the asylum seekers to Jakarta appointment with UNHCR, there are several march Jakartaâ € ™ 24-hour nightlife. Such as drug soaked up multi-level Chinatown, Stadium, the hotel bar club is also very popular, there are many smugglers.

Including asylum seekers, Iranians tend to have the most money. Hazara often complain that they suspected forged Iranians claimed asylum.

Ban work, the only way to really make money is to help smugglers. Many large carriers have requested asylum themselves, but their subordinates often asylum seekers. As smugglersâ agency work can bring decent money, as well as on board, Australia in the future a free berth.

Rasul and his friend Little Love smugglers "These smugglers are liars, they re a liar and they take a huge people and Donna € ™ t spend the boat if smugglers spend correct, we do not € ™ t There are all these tragedies, "€? Ahmed said Aloudal, 30-year-old Afghanistanâ of € ™ s Ghazni province Taliban hit.

But differences of opinion whether Itâ € ™ s accept this fraudulent operators.

€ œPeople, its running out of patience and money to smugglers forced to start working, â €? Said Mahmud Ghazni also Muradi. "ŒItâ not right. Smuggling itself is a crime.â of €?

His friend Juma Fayazi to see different views. Of course, the smugglers "œtake us, they kill us," €? He says. "ŒBut € ™ I think it does not matter if people work for them and they have no other option.â €?

Down in Jakarta, I met a man, he has found a way to make money from the smugglers, did not join the game. Younis "is not his real name," spend money smugglersâ but hate them. HEA is in his own Indonesian people, which is why his life apart from his other community incompetent. A Pakistani Hazaras obviously reckless air, he said, he was not a victim of the Taliban and its allies, but claimed the behest of conservative Shiite cleric was arrested and beaten after he fled Pakistan.