asylum seeker dies

"He was a young man looking for freedom, just looking for peace in his life".

So this is a statement from one of the Tamils on a boat off Indonesia, about a death on the boat.
There is no war in Indonesia, this young man would have found the "freedom" & "peace" he was supposedly looking for in Indonesia. So why did he and the other 250 not get off the boat ?

Could the statement be a lie ? sure looks like a lie ..

Could it be that these people are ECOMONIC refugees.. ie Money Grabbers .. $$$$