My name is Ian Urbina and I’m the founder of The Outlaw Ocean Project, a nonprofit journalism organization based in the United States. We have been looking into a disease outbreak that occurred on board a vessel called the Wei Yu 18 between August 2019 and April 2020. Some of the deckhands who worked on this ship and came down with illness were recruited by PT Multi Maritim. We wanted to share the information we found about this case and ask you a few questions.

In August 2019, two Indonesian deckhands named Sanudin and Ramdhani fell ill and were transported to shore to receive treatment and…