IME is running out for the 78 asylum seekers aboard the Oceanic Viking.
The Government on Thursday showed strong signs it has had enough of the stand-off that is into its fourth week.
And the Australian Tamil Congress group has told the Sri Lankans they should accept the deal being pushed by Australia.
Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard made it clear yesterday the asylum seekers would have to disembark in Indonesia.
"We are working through this methodically and patiently but the end point is a very clear one," she said.
"Which is that we've reached an agreement with Indonesia that these persons will disembark in Indonesia. And that is what the Government is working to achieve."
The Australian Tamil Congress said that if a reported deal to resettle bona fide refugees in Australia was right then the Sri Lankans should leave the vesselAustralia will not use force to remove the asylum seekers from the vessel off Indonesia.
It was reported yesterday that the 78 had been offered resettlement in Australia in less than a month.
They also would, the report said, be offered homes, jobs and social security payments if resettled.
But the Sri Lankans were last night still on the Australian vessel with the apparent sticking point that they did not want to spend any time in an Indonesian detention centre.
Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull slammed the deal.
"It is an extraordinary act of weakness, a collapse of leadership and it sends an unequivocal signal to people smugglers and their customers to come to Australia in an unauthorised way," Mr Turnbull said.
Indonesia believes the asylum seekers should be detained in the Tanjung Pinang detention centre.
"We remain firm that they must be placed in the detention centre," foreign ministry spokesman Teuku Faizasyah said.
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