"Police have 20 possible suspects in Benjina", 9 May 2015

The National Police said...they would name at least 20 people suspects in the...case of slavery in Benjina, Maluku. Head of the human trafficking unit under the police force’s detective division...[said] that most of the suspects were from the fishing firm PT Pusaka Benjina Resources (PBR), a joint venture of Thai and Indonesian companies...A government investigation revealed that at least 1,456 crew members, comprising 1,205 foreigners and 251 Indonesians, were forced to work for long hours with no pay. “According to the evidence that we have gathered, ‘problematic’ crew members were locked up in the isolation chambers for one week to six months with a limited supply of food and poor sanitation. This punishment could be used to discipline workers who got into fights, who did not work as hard as PBR demanded, got drunk or tried to run away,” said [the police].