Boat from Indonesia lands in Australia undetected: At least a dozen people are saved as vessel arrived on Western Australian coast

A boat carrying at least a dozen people from Indonesia arrived undetected in Australia.

Those on board are understood to have been saved by the local Aboriginal people as the vessel pulled up to an isolated stretch of the Anjo Peninsula, on the northern tip of Western Australia.

The group have been described by those at the scene as asylum seekers and in 'poor shape'.

Four of the group are believed to be unaccounted for, having wandered into the treacherous bushland of the Kimberley Region known to be inhabited by salt water crocodiles.

It is unsure how long they had been on Australian shores until the Wunambal Gaambera people found them. 

Police are believed to have flown into the Mungalalu-Truscott airbase on Wednesday, nearby to where the Wunambal Gaambera people found the arrivals.

The Australian Border Force (ABF) has notified police and other government agencies not to discuss the matter with the media. 

A spokesperson for the ABF told Daily Mail Australia that the agency 'does not comment on operational matters'. 

The Liberal State MP for the region, Neil Thomson, told Daily Mail Australia that news of the arrivals as an 'obvious concern' and indicative of the Federal Government's stance on asylum seekers. 

'It does raise issues around the broader messaging that Australia has been sending in recent days, particularly with the release of those convicted persons who were released by the by court decision,'

'(It) sends the signal that Australia is open for business for the people smuggling.'

Mr Thomson said local governments have been calling for more protection from the ABF along the Northern Coast after recent 'incursions' from Indonesian fishing boats.

'We are very vulnerable in the north, we don't have enough of a defence presence,' he said.

'If this is the message that the Australian Government sending to people smugglers, then we need to have greater protection in the north.

'I think that's a real clear message, because the people of the Kimberley do not want to have people just sort of rocking out there. It's very traumatic.'

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