Ruthless Recruiters and Regulatory Loopholes

Despite never having stepped foot on a boat, Arofiqun was determined to become a seaman aboard a foreign fishing boat. In his Central Java hometown of Magelang, the 30-year-old man had been working in a garment factory. I wanted to try new work. Who knows, maybe I could succeed at it," he said, last December.

He went to the office of Jangkar Jaya Samudera in Pemalang, not from Magelang, without any sailing skills. His only training was on basic s

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