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The prostituting of children is a humanitarian problem that deserves world attention because of its impact on a child’s development. All prostituted children are subjected to humiliation, exploitation, deception and marginalization, and many are denied their right to a proper education and other basic needs for developing in the healthiest way. Indonesia has ratified major Conventions related to trafficking that include the trafficking of children and child prostitution. And yet the number of children in prostitution has not declined; instead it continues to rise along with the fast growth of the sex industry in this country. This report is based on a rapid assessment that attempted to generate qualitative as well as quantitative data related to children’s involvement in prostitution, including the nature, causes, consequences and the magnitude. The gender dimension in the prostitution of children also has been explored in the report. This document includes recommendations, based on the research findings for the rapid assessment, to address the problems. Prostitution of young people is most clearly unacceptable when the recruitment process involves deception, force, threats and, of course, kidnapping. It is also clearly unacceptable when young people are held against their will or in a slavery-like situation for purposes of exploitation. But what is also unacceptable is the prostitution of young people who may have “consented” or “chosen” to work in prostitution. It has become widely endorsed among the international community that consent made by children and young people to certain activities is irrelevant. The age of consent has been drawn at 18 years old. Thus, there are certain forms of labour specified as unacceptable for anyone younger than 18 – even with their parents’ or their own consent; the list includes prostitution. This rapid assessment followed the definition included in the Supplemental Protocol to the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime that contends anyone younger than 18 in prostitution is a trafficking victim

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KP.VIII.1 JUL p

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Surakarta : Kakak foundation., 0

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xxxii, 147 hlm. : ilus. ; 18 cm.

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English

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KP.VIII.1

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Pronstitusi anak
Pelacuran anak

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