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JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - The Foreign Ministry has repatriated five stranded Indonesian sailors and has recovered the body of another who died aboard a Chinese fishing vessel in November. They arrived in Galang Baru, Batam, in the Riau Islands province on Wednesday (Dec 30). The repatriation process began after migrant worker staffing agency PT Puncak Jaya Samudera reported the death of an Indonesian crew member named Wendi Setia Pratama from an unspecified illness to the ministry's citizen protection directorate. The company's director, Herman Suprayogi, said Wendi, who was 25 years old, had died on Nov 16 while...
