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Indonesia repatriates Vietnamese fishermen ahead of lunar New Year

The Vietnam Embassy in Indonesia is working with local authorities to send home 71 Vietnamese fishermen, who were captured for violating Indonesia’s waters, within January.
Indonesia repatriates Vietnamese fishermen ahead of lunar New Year ảnh 1Officials from Vietnamese Embassy in Indonesia talk with Vietnamese fishermen (Photo VNA)

Jakarta (VNA) – The Vietnam Embassy in Indonesia is working with localauthorities to send home 71 Vietnamese fishermen, who were captured forviolating Indonesia’s waters, within January.

On January6, 39 people of the group departed from the Soekarno–Hatta InternationalAirport in Jakarta. Most of the leaving was held captivity on Indonesianislands as deponents at trials for their ship captains.

A dayearlier, 21 Vietnamese fishermen were repatriated. Eleven more will make theirjourney home on January 10.

Tran MinhCu, Counsellor of the Vietnamese Embassy, said more repatriation trips likethese will be organised before the lunar New Year holiday.

These fishermenwere said to have not been equipped with sufficient legal knowledge; many ofthem were abandoned by their captains when being arrested. Their disadvantagedbackgrounds made it hard for them to complete procedures to return to Vietnam.Some said they will stop sailing and seek other livelihoods on land.

According tothe embassy, in 2017, about 110 Vietnamese fishing boats caught fish inIndonesia’s waters and close to 1,300 fishermen were captured for theviolation, compared with 58 boats and 644 sailors in 2015 and 109 boats and1,120 sailors in 2016.

As ofDecember 2017, the embassy in collaboration with agencies from both sidesbrought home 1,263 fishermen.-VNA
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