Fiorito: Ship-bound Tamil refugees need help

What happens there happens here: a small wooden boat is sitting at anchor off the coast of Indonesia. It has been there for five months. On board are some 240 people who cannot come ashore for fear of arrest and deportation. They are Tamils. Five months on a boat meant for 50. You can imagine. No, you can’t.Some of them are from camps in Malaysia. All of them fled the recent war. The Indonesian government is doing nothing to help. Why should that matter to us?