Heavy work, Indonesian shipping crew Usually Just Bottoms

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Heavy work,  Indonesian shipping crew Usually Just Bottoms

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - An accident that befell the ship Oryong 501 in the Bering Sea, Russia, leaving the story about the severity of the work of a crew or crews fish. Are often not paid in accordance with his duties, a fishing boat crew had to risk their lives at sea.

According to the Head of Education and Training Directorate General of Sea Transportation Ministry Indra Priyatna, an Indonesian citizen who worked as crew on board foreign fishing mostly not officers, but only crew. "Usually the crew on duty at the subordinate level work, such as pulling the net," he told Tempo, Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014.

Formally, said Indra, to be crew on foreign fishing vessels, one must pocket the basic certificate issued by the institution or course of high school. However, many companies owner of the vessel and crew candidates who do not comply with the requirement. Indonesia, said Indra, also has not ratified international standards for fishing vessel crew. Indonesian standard adopts only merchant ship crew. "For fishing vessels, crew licenses issued by the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries." (Read: Prone Woe, Look complexity Terms crew.)

Bitterness of working in a foreign fishing vessel felt Nendi, ABK from Cirebon, West Java, who worked on a fishing boat company from China. Almost a year Nendi together three Indonesian crew stranded in Lima, Peru. "I give up work on the ship. Just want to go home to meet the family," said Nendi when met at the Indonesian Embassy in Peru, Tuesday, December 2, 2014. (Read: 4 workers to China Ship Derelict year in Peru.)

Nendi claimed mistreatment of juragannya when sailing. He served as a carrier squid fishing with a daily load of 10-15 tonnes. One day, Nendi beaten by juragannya because they do not work well when moving the sack.

Not only that, Nendi also do not get a decent meal during work. The rice is soaked in water so hot daily diet. To kill hunger, Nendi in a tight squeeze forced to take an expired biscuits and drinks. Only a certain moment he was lucky. "When the Chinese arrived, I could eat the bread that is placed on a statue of Kwan Im," he said. Because not hold, Nendi eventually blurred and stranded in Peru.