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Collection of modern slavery news, found 29 news.

BP2MI forms task force to eradicate illegal migrant workers' placement

The Indonesian Migrant Worker Protection Agency (BP2MI) formed a special task force comprising 68 cross-agency members ...

Government quick to tackle online human trafficking: KSP

The government has worked quickly to tackle human trafficking crimes that tricked its victims into online ...

Striving for protection of domestic workers through PPRT bill

Although domestic workers play an important role in many households, such as dual-income homes, where there is less ...

Indonesia calls for collective efforts against human trafficking

Indonesian Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Hamonangan Laoly urged various parties at the “Bali Process ...

KSP's task force to expedite passage of Domestic Worker Bill

The Presidential Staff Office (KSP) announced that it will initiate the formation of a task force for the Domestic ...

Rights body exposes forced labour, slavery at district head's home

The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) came across practices of forced labour and actions akin to slavery ...

Aceh SAR team evacuates Filipino from Liberian-flagged cargo ship

The Banda Aceh SAR team evacuated a Filipino crew member of a Liberian-flagged cargo ship, MT Ivestos X, after he ...

Manpower Ministry to continue efforts to reduce extreme poverty

Manpower Minister Ida Fauziyah has said that her ministry will continue to push intervention measures to reduce the ...

PPATK, BP2MI collaborate to protect migrant workers

The Indonesian Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK) and Indonesian Migrant Workers Protection ...

Ministry registers 1,451 cases of Indonesian crew on foreign vessels

The Foreign Affairs Ministry recorded 1,451 cases involving Indonesian crew members on foreign-flagged fishing vessels ...

Indonesian crew members trapped in modern slavery at sea: Minister

Manpower Minister Ida Fauziyah acknowledged that Indonesian crew members, especially those working for foreign-flagged ...

Fishing vessel captain accused of abandoning 7 seamen

The captain of a fishing vessel, KM Jaya Utama, has been accused of leaving seven crew members stranded at the Merauke ...

A closer look at government's efforts to protect Indonesian seafarers

The news of three Indonesian sailors, who died aboard two Chinese fishing vessels, Long Xin 629 and Long Xin 604, ...

Over 150 sailors working on 12 Chinese fishing vessels repatriated

At least 155 Indonesian seafarers and the bodies of two sailors who died while working on board Chinese fishing vessels ...

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Clamor grows for ending trafficking, slavery on the seas

On June 5 this year, two sailors — Reynalfi, 22, and Andri Juniansyah, 30 — jumped off Chinese-flagged ...