Plea from Taiwan

June 26, 2001

I am an Indonesian overseas contract worker (OCW) in Taiwan. I and 46 fellow OCWs that escaped from our employees were deceived by the OCW service companies (PJTKI) who sent OCWs to Taiwan without the knowledge of either the Ministry of Manpower or Indonesia’s representative office in Taipei, Taiwan. For almost a year we worked but only received NT 1,000 instead of NT 16,000 as promised. With such a small salary, we could not even afford ta

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