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 the case of a deckhand named Fadhil who died on board a vessel called the Wei Yu 18 in 2019. Fadhil was recruited by PT Shafar Abadi, and 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 fly home. In September, Fadhil fell ill, suffering from seizures, thirst, fatig…