Indonesia`s foreign minister Retno Marsudi said he plans to visit Bangladesh to discuss Rohingya refugee crisis. He will visit Dhaka following a regional meeting hosted by Myanmar this week to address recent violence in western Rakhine State.

Myanmar has invited foreign ministers from Southeast Asian nations for December 19 talks in an effort to reduce regional concerns over violence in Rakhine state bordering Bangladesh, which claimed hundreds of lives till date.

The UN on Saturday warned that while over at least 27,000 refugees fled the country for Bangladesh, the Burmese government is making the Rohingya situation worse by its ‘short-sighted, counterproductive, even callous’ approach.

A military crackdown in Rakhine that followed Oct. 9 attacks on police stations has raised concerns among ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries, especially in predominantly Muslim Indonesia and Malaysia.

On Saturday, Indonesia’s top diplomat was quoted by metrotvnews.com as saying, “I`m going to Bangladesh after Myanmar to meet with Bangladesh’s foreign minister to talk about refugees.”

She stressed that Indonesia wants to comprehensively address problems related to Rohingya fleeing along the Myanmar-Bangladesh border, adding that all countries attending the meeting in Myanmar’s largest city Yangon should freely express their opinions.

“During the summit, all can freely express their opinion on Rakhine. So this is not a rigid agenda,” she said. Marsudi underlined that Indonesia would focus on asking Myanmar to open up Rakhine to humanitarian aid and assistance so the situation does not deteriorate for civilians in the impoverished area.

The Burmese government discourages using the term Rohingya in the diplomatic discussion which recently moved to officially prove the ethnic minority is a migrant from Bangladesh.