San Myint Oo, Myanmar’s ambassador to Indonesia, and other officials have negotiated with two lawyers from the Indonesia Lawyers Club and representatives from the Indonesian company that enslaved the fishermen.
The Indonesian company explained that they have already paid salaries through an agency in Thailand and were unaware that the workers had not been paid.
Beside salaries, talks also centred on sending the remaining 197 Myanmar workers in Benjina Island to Ambon Island.
Myanmar nationals were registered under Thai aliases, making it ifficult for officials to find them and bring them home, according to the embassy.
The Indonesian company pledged that they would check the workers against the list compiled by the Myanmar Embassy.
A total of 125 Myanmar workers were brought home on May 14 and 128 on May 17. The last batch of 197 workers will be brought home on May 22, according to the government of Myanmar.
Some workers are confined to wheelchairs, as their lower bodies were injured while working.
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