FORMER ASYLUM SEEKER MISSES FAMILY IN PAPUA

Tangerang, Nov 29 (ANTARA) - Former Indonesian asylum seeker in Australia Yunus Wanggai from Papua said upon arrival here on Saturday he had returned to Indonesia because he missed his family in Serui.
"I wanted to return to live with my whole family in Papua again," he said.
Yunus Wanggai (44) and his daughter Anika Wanggai (7) returned to Indonesia after receiving political asylum in Australia since 2006.
Along with 42 other Papuans he travelled to Australia using a motorized boat from Papua in 2006 to seek political asylum.
Yunus said nobody had forced him to return to Indonesia. He said he returned only to be able to live with his family again.
While he was in Australia he had been treated well but he was not happy living there because he could not eat the food and stand the weather there.
After returning to Papua, he said, he would resume his old profession as a fisherman.
He declined to explain why he had left Indonesia nor was he prepared to comment on the conditions of the other 41 Papuans now still in Australia.
An Indonesian embassy official in Australia, Dupito Darman Simamora, had previously said Yunus ceme to the embassy to convey his wish to repatriate.
"As Indonesian citizens we are obliged to give him protection and follow his wish," he said.