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The Indonesian Destructive Fishing Watch (DFW) has proposed a moratorium and evaluation on the policy, to send Indonesian seafarers to work on Chinese-flagged fishing vessels, in the wake of several problematic cases. DFW Indonesia National Coordinator Moh Abdi Suhufan noted in a statement here on Saturday, that irresponsible perpetrators at home, sent Indonesian seafarers to work in Chinese fishing boats, for alleged human trafficking and forced labour. Suhufan drew attention to another incoming report of an Indonesian crew member, who had died on May 22, 2020, as he was abandoned for two months at the Karachi Port of Pakistan, after working on a Chinese-flagged fishing boat, FV Jin Shung.

The deceased, Eko Suyanto, had been ill since March 19, 2020, and was unilaterally moved by the FV Jin Shung Shipmaster and placed in a small boat owned by a Pakistani fisherman. Suyanto had never received medical treatment. According to a complaint report received by the Fisher Center of Bitung on May 21, 2020, Suyanto had earlier worked on FV Jin Shung for four months from November 2019 to March 2020//ANT