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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Aisyah Llewellyn

Indonesian fruit-pickers say seasonal work in UK left them drowning in debt

A strawberry farm in Wepion, Belgium [File: Johanna Geron/Reuters]

Medan, Indonesia – Indonesian workers who paid thousands of dollars to travel to the United Kingdom to pick fruit say they face the prospect of returning home heavily in debt after being sacked for not meeting unrealistic targets.

Migrant worker Abdul said he departed for the UK in May with nine other Indonesians under the country’s seasonal worker scheme, which grants foreign workers six-month visas to work on British farms.

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