OVER last week, waves of boat people from Myanmar and Bangladesh landed on the shores of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, catching unprepared governments and refugee organizations by surprise. This led authorities to initially take extreme measures, like preventing some of the boats from coming ashore. They have now been given temporary asylum but unlike refugees in the wake of the Indochina War, few countries seem willing to take these new asylum seekers. What will the impacted countries as well as the countries of origin do to prevent similar humanitarian crises in the future?