CHILD SLAVE LABOUR

Beng Ciong jermal, one of the worst and most run-down fishing platforms visited by the TEPA/KKSP child welfare team.

An exhausted 15-yr-old lifts boiled fish from the cauldron at which he has worked continuously for 23 hours in temperatures exceeding 40ºC (110ºF).

Six boys sit huddled around a pile of fish they are sorting in the dead of night whilst the Chinese foreman (in coolie hat) looks on, Sinchuacuan jermal.

TEPA’s investigation of child slave labour on Indonesian jermals (fishing platforms), ‘HELL ON WATER’, was completed in cooperation with the Indonesian child welfare charity KKSP (Kolompok Kerja Social Perkotan) and Anti-Slavery International.

The resulting investigative footage was broadcast on BBC One in a special feature on child slave labour.

TEPA’s ‘HELL ON WATER’ worldwide fund raising and awareness campaign was recognised by Amnesty International with the prestigious Human Rights Press Award.

Child labour on Indonesian jermals ceased soon after the conclusion of this campaign.