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View all search resultsThe United States Department of Labor has added Indonesian nickel to a list of commodities it “has reason to believe” involve forced labor, but the US Embassy says inclusion on the list, which also suspects child labor in the archipelago, does not imply sanctions.
The findings were "based on an independent assessment of available information", the United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, Tomoya Obokata, said in a report that he shared on his Twitter account on Tuesday.
The North Sumatra Police are set to conduct forensic examinations of the remains of three people who are believed to have died after being tortured in iron-barred rooms at the house of graft suspect and inactive Langkat regent Terbit Rencana Parangin Angin, as authorities step up their investigation into the case.
The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) will allow the police and the rights body to interrogate its detainee – graft suspect and inactive Langkat regent Terbit Rencana Peranginangin – about the dozens of people who were found kept in cages at his home in North Sumatra and allegedly forced to work on his oil palm plantation.
More Indonesian migrant workers working aboard foreign fishing vessels are filing reports on alleged withholding of wages, abusive working and living conditions, deception, as well as abuse of vulnerability.
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