Future Kosovo Reintegration Reintegration of Kosovar refugees will be a multi-year process. Although the majority of Kosovar refugees are rapidly repatriating to Kosovo and will receive reintegration assistance from the U.S. government's FY99 supplemental appropriation, some analysts predict that thousands of the most destitute and most severely traumatized Kosovar refugees will delay their repatriation for at least a year. There is concern that the U.S. government's FY99 supplemental appropriation will become exhausted before the most needy returnees become fully reintegrated in FY2000 or later. Nearly 2 million Afghan refugees remain in Iran, where the Iranian government is more aggressively pushing the refugees to repatriate to Afghanistan. Some 100,000 Burmese refugees live on the Thailand border.
More refugees arrive daily because of oppressive measures by Burma's military regime.
Camp relocation and other protective measures are needed. Many refugees have only plastic sheeting for shelter during the rainy season. Some 50,000 Cambodian refugees have returned home from camps in Thailand during the past two years. Continued aid is required to facilitate their reintegration. Potential Refugee Flows from Indonesia Indonesia finds itself in a precarious political situation.