Certificates for Sailors
From Sailor to Porter
Tuesday, July 24, 2001
Around 70,000 Indonesian sailors face the threat of unemployment. They have also regularly had to pay illegal tariffs. Why has the government been so slow in responding?
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Ahmad Ismail is very much like a drunken sailor in a rocking boat on the ocean. He never imagined his life would turn out like this: he's been demoted from his position as captain of an international vessel, he's lost his monthly pay packet of US$800—equal to Rp8.8 million at an exchange rate of Rp11,000 to the US dollar—and now he's working as a porter at Tanjungpriok harbor, North Jakarta. The income of this 48-year-old has dropped
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