The ship, which carried mostly women and children, is the fifth boat of Rohingya refugees to land in Indonesia since November, according to authorities.
The UN refugee agency will provide Rohingya language translators and counselling to determine if they were from the group of 190 Rohingya who were reported to be drifting in a small boat in the Andaman Sea for a month.
The development came after repeated UN calls for rescuing the persecuted Rohingya seemed to have failed.
The group of 110 making the hazardous month-long journey included women and children.
Escalating violence seen at Rohingya settlements where gangs try to assert control over drug trafficking and intimidate the refugees' civilian leadership.
The event is the latest in a series of incidents where shells have exploded in Bangladesh, but the first to cause a fatality.
UN rights chief meets senior officials in capital Dhaka to assess human rights and conditions of Rohingya refugees.
Police are investigating the cause of a riot at a detention centre in northern Malaysia after more than 500 refugees escaped.
114 refugees, including 35 children, were "weak from hunger and dehydration after a long and severe voyage at sea."
A fire burned down 1,200 houses, affecting about 5,000 people, in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar, a border district where more than a million Rohingya refugees live.
More than 3,000 Rohingya-run shops have been bulldozed by Bangladeshi authorities since last month, the country's deputy refugee commissioner Shamsud Douza has confirmed.
Around 2,000 Rohingya refugees will be transferred to Bhashan Char island, an area prone to powerful cyclones that have killed around one million people in the last 50 years.
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