YEAREND PICTURES 2001 - INDONESIAN POLICEMEN CARRY A MIDDLE EASTERN
ASYLUM SEEKER OUT FROM UNHCR IN JAKARTA.


Indonesian policemen carry one of over a hundred Middle Eastern asylum
seekers out of the office of the United Nations High Commission for
Refugees (UNHCR) in Jakarta October 29, 2001, after they had protested
for over three days at the office. Thousands of Middle East and Afghan
immigrants go to Indonesia every year and wait for years to get on a
boat or try to get refugee status from the UNHCR, which will resettle
them - but only if a nation agrees to take them. YEAREND PICTURES 2001
REUTERS/Darren Whiteside