The Outlaw Ocean Project
My name is Ian Urbina and I’m the director of The Outlaw Ocean Project, a journalism non-profit based in Washington D.C. that publishes stories about human rights and environmental issues connected with the sea. I’m contacting you in light of our latest investigation and a link we’ve discovered between abuses on board a vessel owned by the Chinese fishery company, Rongcheng Wangdao Ocean Aquatic Products, and your manning agency.
In 2019, PT Ocean Jaya Samudra placed an Indonesian deckhand named Heri Kusmanto on a Chinese distant- water fishing ship owned by Rongcheng Wangdao, called the Zhen…
The Outlaw Ocean Project
The Outlaw Ocean Project reiterated the initial questions and asked if the manning agency had any record of Heri Kusmanto.