INDONESIA will receive big bucks to help deal with thousands of stranded asylum seekers who can't reach Australia after the federal government's border security crackdown.
The nation's northern neighbour will pocket $86.8 million over three years as part of a regional cooperation agreement to manage the large asylum seeker populations living on its shores, the budget papers show.
Asylum seeker boat arrivals peaked under the previous Labor government but there hasn't been an arrivals since the start of 2014, after the coalition implemented policies to turn back vessels and send arrivals to Papua Guinea and Nauru.
As a result of the success of Operation Sovereign Borders, the government will deliver $2.5 billion saving over five years.
The government is now turning its attention to a huge back log of asylum seeker claims in Australia.
There's 24,000 asylum seekers on bridging visas in the community, 4700 in Australian detention centres, 3100 in community detention and 1300 on Christmas Island.
Asylum seeker support services will cost $564.1 million over five years, according to Tuesday's budget.
The government will go ahead with a mutual obligation pilot program with 300-400 asylum seekers in the community on bridging visas.
It will require them to undertake volunteer and community work and employment-readiness programs.
There's also $149.9 million over five years to deal with the backlog of claims and removals.
Unaccompanied minors will get extra supervision, costing $27.3 million over two years.
As expected, a new frontline super agency called Australian Border Force will operate from July next year and will replace Customs and Border Protection and take in border functions of the immigration department.
The new force will get a $480.5 million package, funded through efficiency savings, increased revenue and reallocation of existing cash.
An Australian Border Force training academy will be set up at a cost of $53.6 million.
Child asylum seekers on Christmas Island will get better access to full time schooling after the government allocated $2.6 million.
Christmas Island will also receive infrastructure upgrades and extra health staff.
Australia will donate two retired Bay Class boats to Malaysia from 2015/16 in an effort to help combat people smuggling.
Meanwhile, the government is set to save $283 million over four years by closing a total of ten detention centres and garner another $38.4 million by scrapping the displaced persons program.
The Migration Review Tribunal and Refugee Review Tribunal will be amalgamated with the Administrative Appeals Tribunal from January 2015, saving $20.2 million over four years.
There will be $77.5 million in savings over five years by re jigging and renegotiating offshore detention centre service provider contracts.
The overall migration intake of 190,000 places will remain unchanged in the 2014/15 financial year.
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