Safrudin Wotu and Sulaiman bin Marhaban yesterday.
A LONG and unexpected journey is nearing an end for three Indonesian fishermen who were duped into working as crew members on people-smuggling boats.
Henki Bire, 43, Safrudin Wotu, 24, and Sulaiman bin Marhaban, 24, had each pleaded guilty to charges of people smuggling.
In the Supreme Court in Hobart yesterday, Justice David Porter said each of the men was the unwitting victim of people-smuggling organisers and had benefited little from the crimes.
Bire was detained after assisting 47 passengers on a 16-metre fishing vessel dubbed SIEV 271, which arrived at Christmas Island on October 22 last year.
The widowed father of two had been told he would be paid IDR 3,000,000 ($300) to work on a fishing vessel and was unaware of the vessel's true purpose until the passengers were boarded offshore.
Wotu was detained on November 11 last year aboard SIEV 273 just off Christmas Island. He had been offered $300 to work on a cargo vessel and was also unaware of the vessel's true purpose or ultimate destination until the 94 passengers turned up.
The judge said bin Marhaban was picked up near Ashmore Reef aboard SIEV 274 with 49 people aboard. He had been paid $400 after being offered work on what he thought at the time was a fishing boat.
Justice Porter said each of the cases was typical of a pattern of people-smuggling syndicates which recruited their crew members from among the vulnerable, impoverished and poorly educated.
He sentenced Wotu and Bire to two years in jail but ordered they be released immediately on the condition they enter into three-year good behaviour bonds.
He sentenced bin Marhaban to a lesser term of 21 months because his desperation was heightened by the critical illness of a young son.
Bin Marhaban will also be released immediately on the condition he enter into a three-year good behaviour bond.
The men were released into immigration detention and are expected to be deported within days.
david.killick@news.com.au
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