WE SUPPORT THE 70 INDONESIAN WORKERS

IN VOICING THEIR RIGHTS!!!

 

Taiwan, December 11, 2001

Dear Friends:

We would like to ask your assistance in supporting the request of 70 Indonesian workers who are being exploited and deprived of their rights by both their employer and their broker, here in Taiwan.

Attached is the press statement (in English and Indonesian) explaining their case.

If after reading this press statement, you would like to express your support for the 70 Indonesian workers, please copy and send the below statement to the following email addresses:

 

Lec Chuen Int’l Development Co., Ltd.:
                                                               e3303381@ms27.hinet.net
                                                                lec.chuen@msa.hinet.net
                                                                lectyu@ms69.hinet.net

 

Hong Kong Teakwood: Gmobox@hktw.com.tw

 

President Chen Shue-Bian: abian@mail.oop.gov.tw

 

Please circulate this among your friends.

Thanking you for your understanding and concern,

Bruno Ciceri

Director

Stella Maris International Service Center

                                   

Please cut, copy and paste
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We SUPPORT the 70 Indonesian workers formerly employed by Hong Kong Teakwood Works (Taiwan), Ltd.

We request that Lec Chuen Int’l Development Co., Ltd. REFUND the excess of the broker’s fee collected in advance for a two-year contract.

We DEPLORE the blackmailing tactics of Hong Kong Teakwood Works, Ltd., for seizing unlawfully the savings, salaries, passport, and airplane ticket of the workers.
We DENOUNCE Lec Chuen Int’l Development Co., Ltd., and Hong Kong Teakwood Works, Ltd., for using such unjust methods to threaten and pressure the workers to give up their rights.

We APPEAL to the government of Taiwan to CONTINUE their efforts in protecting the rights of migrant workers, and to use all possible legal means to punish the corrupt brokers and employers who are exploiting and abusing foreign workers in Taiwan.
Lastly, we ASK that the government of Taiwan take actions which promote strongly RESPECT FOR BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS in Taiwan.

WE SUPPORT THE 70 INDONESIAN WORKERS IN VOICING THEIR RIGHTS!!!

 

Thanking you for your understanding and concern,

Bruno Ciceri

Director

Stella Maris International Service Center

 

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