Indonesian officials say about 140 weak and hungry Rohingya Muslims, mostly women and children, are on a wooden boat anchored about 1 mile off the coast of Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh, and local residents refused to allow them onto land.

The United Nations refugee agency has appealed to Indonesia's government to rescue a boat languishing off its western coast packed with more than 100 Rohingya refugees including women and children.

A boatful of 140 Rohingyan refugees, mostly women and children, have been left stranded one mile off the coast of Indonesia as locals refuse to allow the asylum seekers to make landfall. The wooden boat,