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Refugees OK 'temporarily'

Indonesia has agreed to "temporarily" accept around 75 Sri Lankans picked up over the weekend by an Australian customs ship. The Sri Lankans are the latest in a flood of people from war-torn countries picked up while seeking passage to Australia.

Presidential spokesman Dino Patti Djalal said the asylum seekers are being shipped to the Indonesian port of Merak in western Java.