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Trafficking of women and 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).Trafficking of human being for whatever reasons is a gross violation of HumanRights. In this study, trafficking is understood as an act, which includes a componentof recruitment and/or transportation of a person most often for exploitative labour bymeans of violence, threat, deception, or debt bondage. As a signatory to a number ofhuman rights conventions, such as CEDAW, CRC, ILO Convention 138 and ILOConvention 182 – Indonesia is bound to take necessary actions against suchviolation. This measure is commensurate with the ILO Convention 182, which wasratified as Law No. 1/2000. This convention sees trafficking of children for labour asone of the worst forms of child labour and, therefore, the signatory state should takeimmediate necessary actions to prevent and overcome the problem. As part of the implementation of ILO Convention 138 and 182, the UN has recentlylaunched program initiatives in different regions of the world – including the GreaterMekong Areas – to combat women and child trafficking. Indonesia being recognizedas a sending country, has been considered as one of the appropriate countries toimplement similar initiative. A consultant is hired to review existing information and toconsult with different individuals and agencies to assess the likely magnitude andnature of the problem and the capacity to respond to the observed incidence.

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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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