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With rain in English, they are lucky to meet people of Indonesia and escort them to the door of the next departure. "Arriving in Trinidad Tobago, we were picked up after a two-day three-night trip, without a break we were loaded onto the boat which then took us to the ship RICH 07," he said.
"After that, two years we sailed without a dock and enslaved," said Imam.
After two years of work, Imam abandoned. Company Kwo Jeng Trading Co. Ltd., Taiwan-based company that employs him and the other 203 never be able to pay the promised wage packet. The package was in the form of basic salary of US $ 180 per month, money docked US $ 400, and an annual bonus of US $ 1,000.
Had float in limbo for six months in a sea of ​​Trinidad and Tobago, Imam finally able to return to the homeland in 2013. "I was lucky to survive, there are some friends who stress even throw themselves into the sea," he said.
Imam, and a number of their fellow former crew dispatched by PT Karltigo, never bring an action against this problem. They demanded the intermediary company and the case was brought to the West Jakarta District Court.
The court held from late 2013 until early 2014. At the trial it was revealed that the company was not licensed to dispatch sailors. In fact, a witness from the Ministry of Transportation in a statement during the hearing said that the seaman book brought slaves from Indonesia was false. (See also: Flirt Candy For Indonesia Slaves in Hell ship)
Unfortunately the owner, Willy, is only lightly punished. He snared a matter of falsification of documents. Now, the Imam did not know what else to complain about wages kepeda who were never paid.
A story about slavery in the fishing vessel was raised again after the news about the crew from Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam in Benjina, Aru Islands, Maluku. Bambang, Imam and his fellow crew members from Indonesia on foreign vessels is similarly threatened his life.
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