Displacement Governance Mapping

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Indonesia Presidential Regulation No. 125/2016 on the Handling of Refugees from Abroad

Indonesia · Migration and labour · Refugee hosting · Law or regulation

Presidential Regulation No. 125/2016 on the Handling of Refugees from Abroad provides Indonesia's principal administrative framework for dealing with foreign refugees. The regulation remains unamended; Indonesia has still not acceded to the 1951 Refugee Convention or its 1967 Protocol.

Why it matters: The regulation is one of Southeast Asia's clearest examples of administrative refugee governance without accession to the 1951 Refugee Convention. The political economy archetype is humanitarian containment through administrative coordination: refugees are managed and assisted, but not absorbed into national membership or welfare systems. Recent academic commentary continues to characterise the regulation's decade in force as a stalemate rather than a pathway toward legal status.