Making a Fortune from Workers' Sweat
Indonesian overseas contract worker (OCW) placement companies can profit to the tune of millions of rupiah. Little wonder then that the industry has expanded and officially there are now 421 companies in the business.
February 5, 2002
BAHRIUN, 25, wasn't brave enough to look up at the bright skies above Belawan harbor, Medan, that afternoon. His head was slumped over, gazing at the feet of all the people disembarking from the Bahagia Ekspres ferry. Bahriun was deported from Malaysia last week after spending a month in jail because he was arrested by the police and could not produce his passport. "I don't know where I'm going now as I come from Sulawesi and that's a long
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