The Sabu Voyage in Sumatra
Taiwanese drug smuggler networks supply nartoctics to Indonesia using fishing boats with falsified documents. Operating as far as Australia’s western coast, they make use of undetected small piers and uninhabited islets near the Riau Islands. This investigation report is the collaborative work of Tempo magazine, Taiwan media The Reporter, Tempo Institute and Free Press Unlimited.
Wayan Agus Purnomo
July 27, 2020
AT the end of 2017, Huang Ching An received an offer to become an engineer on a cargo ship from his old friend, Ceng Ching Tun, at a karaoke shop in Ping Tong, Taiwan. Someone claiming to be a ship owner then called and offered to pay him NT$80,000 or around Rp39 million for one trip. “It did not seem suspicious, so I said yes,” Ching An, 50, told Tempo on the phone, June 23.
Ching An’s career as a seaman stopped two years ago
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