An extra year did nothing to improve matters, even with continuing coverage by the world’s media and assurances from the junta that they were tackling the problem. When the same report was released in 2015, Thailand was again given Tier 3 status, with the conclusion that “corruption and official complicity in trafficking crimes continued to impede anti-trafficking efforts.” In response, self-appointed Prime Minster Prayuth Chan-Ocha merely seemed irritated that the issue kept raising its ugly head. In March, when one of Thailand’s more professional and serious journalists, Thapanee Ietsrichai, reported that Thai nationals were being held as slave labor on Thai fishing boats off the coast of Indonesia, she was quickly reprimanded. Prayuth told reporters “not to escalate this news,” citing concerns for the seafood industry, one of Thailand’s biggest exports and the industry most blighted by slave labor. Thapanee was then summoned by the junta and other journalists were advised against reporting the issue.