{"id":92169,"date":"2015-09-05T11:07:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T03:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=92169"},"modified":"2015-09-05T11:07:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T03:07:48","slug":"fodder-for-traffickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=92169","title":{"rendered":"Fodder for traffickers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A BOAT packed with illegal immigrants from Indonesia capsized off the coast of Hutan Melintang\/Sabak Bernam on Thursday. At least 24 lives were lost and many more are missing. According to the survivors, there were 70 to 80 people on the vessel, with each having paid RM700 for a passage to Tanjung Balai, Indonesia. The vessel, a fishing boat registered in Indonesia, was believed to be ferrying the human cargo home for the upcoming Hari Raya Aidiladha celebrations. Tragedy struck and for many, a watery grave ended all hope for a joyous reunion with their families. And, unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident having happened before enough times to, one would have thought, deter these sad souls. But poverty drives one to extremes of hope.<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading the rest of the article, click <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1JG0Fel\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A BOAT packed with illegal immigrants from Indonesia capsized off the coast of Hutan Melintang\/Sabak Bernam on Thursday. At least 24 lives were lost and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[79],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92170,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92169\/revisions\/92170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}