Worked to death: How a Chinese tuna juggernaut crushed its Indonesian workers

Mongabay
Sep 13, 2021, 6:46 am269 pts
When Sepri was growing up, life in his village began to deteriorate. In the 1990s, the village, Serdang Menang, in the south of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island, was centered around fertile rice fields and rivers full of fish. But after a palm oil company drained and denuded the swampy landscape, flooding and…

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