Agony on a Russian-flagged vessel
The Marine Affairs and Fisheries Ministry detained the Run Zeng (RZ) 03 fishing vessel in Mei and June 2024
The two vessels have a gross-tonnage of 870 GT. While fishing vessels registered in Indonesia have a maximum gross-tonnage of 360 GT.
Jaring.id and Tempo Magazine, with support from the Pulitzer Center, has looked deeper into this case.
Investigating the many horrible practices that take place on the two ships and the Indonesian companies that are involved in them.
The recruitment of crew members to work on RZ 03 and RZ 05 was conducted in two waves that used similar modus operandi. However, the two recruitment waves involved two different parties.
The fishermen learned about the crew member recruitment from a post in a Meta group. They later contacted the phone number listed on the post via WhatsApp