The Afghans were left stranded on the eastern Indonesian island of Sabu when their boat was ruined by heavy seas on January 13.
Indonesian authorities now want to move the asylum seekers into a detention centre in nearby Kupang, in West Timor.
But the Afghans - 50 men, five women and two children - insist they want to continue their journey to Australia.
"Two tried to commit suicide by banging their heads into a wall," senior local official Dominggus Widu Hau said.
"One tried to slit his wrist, but it didn't happen.
"They are now in better condition and have joined their friends again."
Officials from the International Organisation for Migration are in talks with the Afghans, who are being housed in an old mosque, Widu Hau said.
-Herald Sun
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