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Trafficking of children in Indonesia : a preliminary description of the situation

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In her remarks during the opening session of the Regional Consultation on theImplementation of A4A in Bangkok, Thailand on the 28 th August, 2000 – Ms.Muireann O’Brian – the Executive Director of ECPAT international - mentioned thattrafficking of women and children has become a global issue. She specificallymentioned ECPAT’s recent finding that an Eastern European woman was traffickedinto Cambodia, an incidence which would never enter anyone’s mind before.Observations made by activists in Bali, Batam islands, and Medan seem to indicatethat young Indonesian girls may have been trafficked internally (between provincesand islands) and across border to as far as Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Hongkong, Australia, the Middle East, and West Europe (see accounts by Farid, 1997; Sofian,2000). Most of them were trafficked for labour, prostitution, and other forms ofsexual exploitation (e.g., pedophilia

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KP.IV.3 IRW t

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Jakarta : International Labour Organization., 2000

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50 hal ; 30 cm

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Indonesia

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KP.IV.3

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Trafficking
Perdagangan anak

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