Detainees from Nigeria stand inside their cell at Tanjungpinang Central Immigration Detention Center on Bintan Island, Indonesia, Wednesday, May 15, 2024. This three-story detention facility, with its barred windows and fading paint, is home to dozens of detainees facing uncertain futures, including whether they will ever return to their homelands, in conditions that closely resemble a prison. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Officers check the health condition of a Nigerian detainee at Tanjungpinang Central Immigration Detention Center on Bintan Island, Indonesia, Wednesday, May 15, 2024. This three-story detention facility, with its barred windows and fading paint, is home to dozens of detainees facing uncertain futures, including whether they will ever return to their homelands, in conditions that closely resemble a prison. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Abdulnasir, a Somalian who has spent 8 years in Indonesia, stands at a resort turned into a shelter in Tanjungpinang, Bintan Island, Indonesia, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Many refugees had fled to the sprawling Southeast Asian archipelago as a jumping-off point hoping to eventually reach Australia by boat, but are now stuck in what feels like an endless limbo. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Refugees walk outside Hotel Kolekta, turned into a shelter for refugees, in Batam, an island in northwestern Indonesia, Thursday, May 16, 2024. The former tourist hotel was converted in 2015 into a temporary shelter that today houses 228 refugees from conflict-torn nations including Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan and elsewhere. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Hamid Mohammad, 28, an Afghan who has been in Indonesia for 11 years, looks into a mirror at a resort turned into a shelter for refugees, in Tanjungpinang, Bintan Island, Indonesia, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Indonesia, despite having a long history of accepting refugees, is not a signatory to the U.N. Refugee Convention of 1951 and its 1967 Protocol, and the government does not allow refugees and asylum-seekers to work.(AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Children play near an elevator at a hotel turned into a shelter for refugees in Batam, an island in northwestern Indonesia, Thursday, May 16, 2024. The former tourist hotel was converted in 2015 into a temporary shelter that today houses 228 refugees from conflict-torn nations including Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan and elsewhere. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Sudanese woman Rawda Yousif, who has been in Indonesia for eight years, stands for a photograph in her room at Hotel Kolekta, turned into a shelter for refugees, in Batam, an island in northwestern Indonesia, Thursday, May 16, 2024. The former tourist hotel was converted in 2015 into a temporary shelter that today houses 228 refugees from conflict-torn nations including Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan and elsewhere. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Nagad Daoud Abdallah, right, and Majdah Ishag, both from Sudan, sit on a bed in Ishag's room at a hotel turned into a shelter for refugees in Batam, an island in northwestern Indonesia, Thursday, May 16, 2024. Both have been at the community housing for eight years while waiting for resettlement in a third country. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Two of four Myanmarese fishermen, stranded because they cannot afford to pay for their onward travel, rest inside their cell at Tanjungpinang Central Immigration Detention Center on Bintan Island, Indonesia, Wednesday, May 15, 2024. This three-story detention facility, with its barred windows and fading paint, is home to dozens of detainees facing uncertain futures, including whether they will ever return to their homelands, in conditions that closely resemble a prison. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
An Afghan refugee walks at a resort turned into a shelter in Tanjungpinang, Bintan Island, Indonesia, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Indonesia, despite having a long history of accepting refugees, is not a signatory to the U.N. Refugee Convention of 1951 and its 1967 Protocol, and the government does not allow refugees and asylum-seekers to work.(AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
A child plays with a mobile phone in the hallway of Hotel Kolekta, turned into a shelter for refugees, in Batam, an island in northwestern Indonesia, Thursday, May 16, 2024. The former tourist hotel was converted in 2015 into a temporary shelter that today houses 228 refugees from conflict-torn nations including Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan and elsewhere. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Majdah Ishag, a 36-year-old Sudanese woman, cleans up her room at a hotel turned into a shelter for refugees in Batam, Indonesia, Thursday, May 16, 2024. Ishag has been living in the hotel for eight years after leaving home in search of a better life in Indonesia for her family. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Rahima Farhangdost, an Afghan refugee who has been living in Indonesia since August 2014 after the Taliban banned her from working as a nurse and teacher, stands outside her boarding house in Bogor, Indonesia, Thursday, May 30, 2024. "I heard the process is faster and that after two or three years, we could get resettlement. So that's why I came to Indonesia. But it's been a very, very long time — 10 years now. I really regret it. I would prefer to die in Afghanistan, and not have come to Indonesia," she said. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Refugees talk outside a hotel turned into a shelter for refugees in Bintan, an island in northwestern Indonesia, Thursday, May 16, 2024. Many refugees had fled to the sprawling Southeast Asian archipelago as a jumping-off point hoping to eventually reach Australia by boat, but are now stuck in what feels like an endless limbo. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Mohammad Khan Husaini, a 30-year-old Afghan who has been in Indonesia for 11 years, stands at a resort turned into a shelter in Tanjungpinang, Bintan Island, Indonesia, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Many refugees had fled to the sprawling Southeast Asian archipelago as a jumping-off point hoping to eventually reach Australia by boat, but are now stuck in what feels like an endless limbo. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
A refugee stands in front of what used to be the reception desk of Hotel Kolekta, turned into a shelter for refugees, in Batam, an island in northwestern Indonesia, Thursday, May 16, 2024. The former tourist hotel was converted in 2015 into a temporary shelter that today houses 228 refugees from conflict-torn nations including Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan and elsewhere. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Majdah Ishag, from Sudan, sits for a photograph in her room at a hotel turned into a shelter for refugees in Batam, an island in northwestern Indonesia, Thursday, May 16, 2024. Ishag has been at the community housing for eight years while waiting for resettlement in a third country. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Morwan Mohammad and his wife Nagad Daoud Abdallah, who fled war in Sudan, pose for a photograph in their room at a hotel turned into a shelter for refugees, in Batam, an island in northwestern Indonesia, Thursday, May 16, 2024. They are among hundreds of refugees living in community housing on the island while waiting for resettlement in a third country. All three of Mohammad's children were born in Indonesia and he does not know where his family will ultimately settle. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)