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Indonesian farm workers left stranded in debt in UK, embassy warns
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LONDON, 03 December 2022, (TON): The mission said “more than 200 Indonesian fruit pickers have since July sought help from their nation’s embassy in London after wracking up huge debts traveling to the UK for work, only to find their jobs being cut short.”
The true number of Indonesians struggling in the industry was likely to be much higher, it added, with more than 1,450 of them sent this year by a company called AG Recruitment to work on six-month seasonal worker visas.
An embassy official told media that initially people “started coming to us with problems about the targets on farms.”
But the official added “currently, most people are contacting us because there’s no more work at the farms. They try to transfer, but AG tells them there’s no other work.”
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