Indonesian sailor Surono and his crew are stranded on their fishing boat off West Africa. The Portuguese-flagged Novo Ruivo has been docked in Cabo Verde for months. The crew has not been paid for nearly a year. Shipowners have abandoned them, breaking their promises. Surono said, "My family cries because I can’t get any money. My children and wife need money to eat." He flies from Indonesia to Namibia in March 2025 to work on the tuna longliner. Now, the sailors face a harsh decision. They can either stay on the ship and wait for their back pay or return home with no money. Surono asks, "We want to go home, but if we go home without money, then what? We’ve been working ourselves to the bone out at sea. How can we just be abandoned like that?" This case highlights a growing problem of migrant workers left unpaid and abandoned at sea by irresponsible owners.