Rescuers saved 469 boat people from Myanmar and Bangladesh who were caught in waters off northern Indonesia, Russia Today reported.

"We received a report from fishermen this morning that there were boat people stranded in the waters off north Aceh," Aceh provincial search and rescue chief Budiawan said.

"We dispatched teams there and evacuated 469 migrants who are Rohingya from Myanmar and Bangladeshis. There are women and children among them. So far, all of them are safe," he added.