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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early
years of the 21st Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Indonesia.htm
Indonesia is a major source of women, children, and men
trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and commercial sexual
exploitation. To a far lesser extent, it is a destination and transit country
for foreign trafficking victims. The greatest threat of trafficking facing
Indonesian men and women is that posed by conditions of forced labor and debt
bondage in more developed Asian countries – particularly Malaysia, Singapore,
and Japan -- and the Middle East, particularly Saudi Arabia, according to IOM
data. Indonesia women and girls are also trafficked to Malaysia and Singapore
for forced prostitution and throughout Indonesia for both forced prostitution
and forced labor. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June,
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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Human Trafficking, Migrant Labor Often Linked in News Blaze, June 11, 2007 -- Source: newsblaze.com/story/20070611155549tsop.nb/topstory.html [accessed 13 February 2011] More than 2.5 million Indonesians
from poorer regions support their families every year by traveling overseas
seeking work as domestic servants and laborers. Most work in Malaysia and
Saudi Arabia, but hundreds of thousands of others also can be found in
Singapore, Japan, Syria, Kuwait, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Some of these individuals find
work through officially sanctioned recruiting agencies. But Susilo estimates that more than half of would-be migrant
workers bypass these programs for the deceptive ease of working through less
reputable recruiters who, like traffickers the world over, confiscate
passports, trap would-be workers with exorbitant loans to travel abroad and
force them into laboring in dangerous and abusive work environments in a
futile effort to repay their unmanageable debts before sending money home to
their families. Indonesia's Footwear Workers Too Thin For Aerobics Charles Wallace, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 6 September 2011] Suyatmi, a shy, 20-year old factory
worker, is too poor to know much about sneakers. She's never heard of Bo
Jackson and is too skinny to care about aerobics.
Her world consists of a rented, 5-foot sqaure room in a shantytown where she sits on the
concrete floor with three other young women.
Every day a t 7 a.m., Suyatmi
begins work at P.T. Hardaya Aneka
Shoes Industry, one of six companies in Indonesia making shoes for Nike Inc.,
the spectacurly successful U.S. sporting goods
company. Her production "line" of 30 workers produces 350 pairs of
Nike's glitzy footwear a day. Suyatmi and her co-workers earn a base salary of 1,900
Indonesian rupiahs a day, the equivalent of $1.15.
Working a six-day week, with a least two hours of overtime each day, she
takes home about $17 per week. The company also gives her lunch and a bus
ride to work. "Some days it's hard,"
she said. "But I'm just happy to have a job." ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/indonesia.htm [accessed 13 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - The December 26 tsunami left
thousands of children in Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61609.htm [accessed 13 February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – The Singkawang District of West Kalimantan remained well
known as an area from which poor, ethnic Chinese women and teenage girls
between the ages of 14 and 20 were recruited as "mail order" brides
for men, primarily in In many cases traffickers
recruited girls and women under false pretenses. One tactic was to offer
young women in rural areas jobs as waitresses or hotel employees in distant
regions, including island resorts. After the new recruits arrived and
incurred debts to their recruiters, they learned that they had been hired as
prostitutes. In October Many victims became vulnerable to
trafficking during the process of becoming migrant workers. Many unauthorized
recruiting agents operated throughout the country and were involved in
trafficking to various degrees, and some government-licensed recruiting
agents also were implicated in trafficking. Recruiting agents often charged
exorbitant fees leading to debt bondage and recruited persons to work
illegally overseas, which increased the workers' vulnerability to trafficking
and other abuses Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 30 January 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/indonesia2004.html [accessed 13 February 2011] [51] The Committee is concerned
that the current adoption legislation discriminates between groups of
different ethnic origins, does not provide sufficient safeguards against
abusive practices, including trafficking of children, and does not take
sufficiently into account the principle of the best interest of the child. [87] The Committee welcomes the
endorsement by the State party of relevant international and regional
agreements such as the Regional Commitment and Action Plan of the [88] The Committee is nonetheless concerned
at the lack of awareness in the State party on this phenomenon, at the
insufficient legal protection for victims of trafficking, and that few
measures have been taken to prevent and protect children from sale,
trafficking and abduction. Human Trafficking Escalates as World Economy Plunges Judy Lin for UCLA Today, 6/5/2009 www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=109082 [accessed 13 February 2011] A native of a tiny Indonesian
agricultural village, Ima and her family were among
that country's estimated 116 million citizens who subsist on less than $2 a
day. As a teen, she regularly traveled two hours to the city of Surabaya to
bring in a little money cleaning houses. During one such trip, she got an
offer she couldn't refuse. "A
woman came to me and said she had a cousin in L.A. who needed a nanny," Ima recalled. "Would I go to the It was 1997, and she was 17 when
she excitedly arrived in L.A., only to have her "employer" — an
affluent Indonesian woman — confiscate Ima's
passport, tell her that she would receive her salary in a lump sum after two
years; work her 10-to-18 hours a day, seven days a week, as nanny and
housekeeper; and beat her – hitting her in the face and slamming her into
walls. Yet Ima
was one of the lucky ones. She wasn't raped, fed a meal of rice once a day or
made to sleep in the doghouse – as other victims have recounted. Human trafficking victims suffer from mental distress Panca Nugraha,
The www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/02/04/human-trafficking-victims-suffer-mental-distress.html [accessed 13 February 2011] As many as 57 human trafficking
victims in West Nusa Tenggara
have suffered from mental distress and at one point were treated at Selagalas Mental Hospital in Mataram,
said the head of a group concerned with the issue. "Some of them are still being treated
and the condition of the others is improving, but they are still receiving
outpatient treatment," Endang Susilowati, director of the Mataram
Panca Karsa Foundation
(PPK Mataram), told The Jakarta Post on
Tuesday. Endang
said the 57 victims were among the 317 human trafficking victims under the
care of PPK Mataram during 2008, 80 percent of whom
are women and 40 percent of them children under the age of 18. Endang said the
victims were believed to have suffered severe trauma after being cheated,
exploited and abused during their ordeal, as well as being ashamed to return
to their home villages. Police discover new mode of human trafficking ANTARA News, indonesie.actieforum.com/t261-police-discover-new-mode-of-human-trafficking [accessed 13 February 2011] Police have discovered a new mode
of human trafficking, eration by kidnapping and
drugging, National Police spokesman Insp Gen Abubakar Nataprawira said here
on Friday. "In the past, human
trafficking was carried out by flattery and offering the victims a job, but
now the perpetrators get their victims by kidnapping and drugging," Abubakar Nataprawira said. He made the statement commenting on human
trafficking from Indonesia to Malaysia through border crossing point of Entikong, West Kalimantan. Church slams daily human trafficking and authorities’
complicity Mathias Hariyadi, AsiaNews, 09/19/2007 www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=10342&size=A [accessed 13 February 2011] Migrant women abducted by criminal
gangs, drugged and then put to work in prostitution rings under false
identities, often with complicity of corrupt local officials and police
officers is but one typical aspect of human trafficking in Indonesia. Human Trafficking, Migrant Labor Often Linked in News Blaze, June 11, 2007 -- Source: newsblaze.com/story/20070611155549tsop.nb/topstory.html [accessed 13 February 2011] More than 2.5 million Indonesians
from poorer regions support their families every year by traveling overseas
seeking work as domestic servants and laborers. Most work in Malaysia and
Saudi Arabia, but hundreds of thousands of others also can be found in
Singapore, Japan, Syria, Kuwait, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Some of these individuals find
work through officially sanctioned recruiting agencies. But Susilo estimates that more than half of would-be migrant
workers bypass these programs for the deceptive ease of working through less
reputable recruiters who, like traffickers the world over, confiscate
passports, trap would-be workers with exorbitant loans to travel abroad and
force them into laboring in dangerous and abusive work environments in a
futile effort to repay their unmanageable debts before sending money home to
their families. Indonesian Police Arrest 15 For Alleged Human Trafficking Malaysian National News Agency, May 30, 2007 findarticles.com/p/news-articles/bernama-malaysian-national-news-agency/mi_8082/is_20070530/indonesian-police-arrest-15-alleged/ai_n51556237/ [accessed 21 November 2010] Indonesian police have arrested 15
people for alleged trafficking of women and girls to Human Trafficking Rate in Ninin Damayanti,
Tempo Interactive, www.tempointeractive.com/hg/nasional/2007/01/15/brk,20070115-91270,uk.html [accessed 13 February 2011] The commitment of the Indonesian
government in handling human trafficking is still considered to be low. This can be seen from the amount of human
trafficking victims that keep increasing every year. Child trafficking on rise in Indonesia Australian Associated Press AAP, Dec 4 2006 news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=168485 [accessed 13 February 2011] Indonesian authorities are
battling a growing trade in child trafficking, including a recent case where
hundreds of babies were sold overseas, a report says. The report, by the Indonesian Ministry of
Women Empowerment, found that efforts to retrieve the children in baby trafficking
cases were flawed. The report said one woman was
caught in South Jakarta last year after having sold 880 babies abroad. A
further 25 babies were saved. Disasters Increase Risk of Human Trafficking Rofiqi Hasan,
TEMPO Interactive, Denpasar, 08 November, 2006 |
18:10 WIB www.tempointeractive.com/hg/nasional/2006/11/08/brk,20061108-87306,uk.html [accessed 13 February 2011] The crimes are many forms:
distribution of 880 babies from North Sumatra to US Official Urges Indonesia to Crack Down on Human
Trafficking Voice of At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 6 September 2011] On Saturday, at a crisis center in
Miller says Indonesians are
particularly vulnerable to human traffickers because of the country's
poverty, widespread slavery rings, and lack of law enforcement due to
corruption. Bangka Belitung fertile
ground for human trafficking Antara News, Pangkalpinang, September 18, 2006 [accessed 13 February 2011] Bangka Belitung
province is a fertile ground for the operations of human trafficking
syndicates as the world`s biggest tin producing
region is also full of ecoomic activities
facilitating their illegal practices, a local women rights protection
activist said. "People from
different areas in Indonesia who fell victims of human trafficking were
initially offered good jobs with good salaries but in the end they were
forced into prostitution in pubs or red-light districts," woman rights`
protection activist Radmidha Dawam
said here Monday. Govt still weak in protecting women
from human trafficking Antara News, 09/13/06 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 6 September 2011] The Indonesian government is still
weak in preparing and implementing laws against human trafficking which has
been harming women, Executive Director of the Centre for Development of
Female Resources (PPSW) Endang Sulfiana,
said here Wednesday. Human trafficking ring busted Deutsche Presse-Agentur (German
Press Agency) DPA, [accessed 13 February 2011] The victims, aged 14 to 17, were
promised jobs in Jakarta as domestic workers, but were then flown to West
Kalimantan province on the Indonesian side of Borneo and taken across the
border into Malaysia, sometimes using false travel documents. Microsoft Partners with Asian NGOs to Help in Fight
Against Human Trafficking Xinhua News Agency- [accessed 13 February 2011] Microsoft Corp. has awarded over $ The Unlimited Potential grants to help combat human trafficking were distributed in Cambodia, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand and will deliver IT skills through training that enhance the employment prospects and economic conditions of people most vulnerable to, or already victimised by, human traffickers. Guest Worker May Lose Digits, Toes After Being Tied Up in
Bathroom for a Month Hassan Adawi,
Arab News, Jeddah, 23 March 2005 [accessed 13 February 2011] A 25 year-old Indonesian guest worker will have several
of her fingers, toes and part of her right foot amputated because of gangrene
after being tied up for a month in a bathroom by her Saudi sponsor. The Indonesian Embassy noted that 2,000
housemaids have been repatriated to Sex Trafficking Growing in S.E. Asia Fayen Wong, Reuters, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 6 September 2011] Girls from the villages of Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 2 Civil Liberties: 3 Status: Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=22&year=2009&country=7626 [accessed 13 February 2011] Human Rights Overview Human Rights Watch [accessed 13 February 2011] Library of Congress Call Number DS615 .I518 1993 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/idtoc.html [accessed 13 February 2011] Bernard Hibbitts, Jurist Legal
News and Research Services, January 04, 2005 jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2005/01/indonesia-moves-to-preempt-child.php [accessed 13 February 2011] The government of Indonesia,
concerned over reports of human trafficking in children in the wake of last
week's tsunami disaster off the west coast of the country that killed over
100,000 and left other hundreds of thousands homeless, has now placed
restrictions on the transport of youngsters out of the country and has
brought special guards into refugee camps, directing local police commanders
to be on watch against abduction or other exploitation of children. Tsunami orphans available for the right price Mathias Hariyadi, AsiaNews.it, 01/02/2005 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 6 September 2011] Volunteers from the Muslim-based
Justice and Prosperity Party (PKS) claim that "human lives" are
being bought and sold in some of the refugee camps in North Sumatra's
provincial capital of Confirmed Child Trafficking in George Nishiyama, Reuters, progressivetsunamihelp.blogspot.com/2005/01/confirmed-child-trafficking-in.html [accessed 13 February 2011] "An NGO has reported seven
trafficking cases in US issues guidelines to prevent human trafficking in
tsunami-hit Asia Agence France-Presse
AFP, wn.com/us_issues_guidelines_to_prevent_human_trafficking_in_tsunami-hit_asia [accessed 13 February 2011] The US State Department said Wednesday
it was issuing guidelines to officials and volunteers in tsunami-hit Call for legal reforms to protect children in Indonesia At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 6 September 2011] The report highlights concerns
about inconsistencies and gaps in the law, especially with regard to the
treatment and protection of children. For example, prostitution is one of the
main forms of commercial sexual exploitation of children in Indonesia. But
the law does not provide for children who are sexually exploited in the
streets and brothels to be treated as victims of a crime. Instead, they are
more likely to be treated as criminals. This is because the Criminal Code
contains no provisions relating to commercial sexual transactions with a
child even as it allows for punishment of children forced into street prostitution,
either for offences against public order or as vagrants. Meanwhile, people who pay for sex with a
child and those who facilitate this action commonly escape punishment due to
the lack of explicit laws targeting people who buy sex with children and weak
enforcement of existing laws on pimping. Report On Laws And Legal Procedures Concerning The Commercial Sexual Exploitation Of Children In Indonesia [DOC] ECPAT International in collaboration with Antarini Arna, Director, Yayasan Pemantau Hak Anak, and Mattias Bryneson, Legal
Consultant, December 2004 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 6 September 2011] This study finds that in indahnesia.com blog!, blog.indahnesia.com/entry/200406090004/indonesia_s_shameful_export.php [accessed 13 February 2011] It is not something any government
likes to make public, but the figures say it all: UNICEF Urges Action On Child Trafficking ECPAT International, Online Newsdesk,
31 March 2004 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 6 September 2011] The United Nations Children's Fund
(UNICEF) has called on Help Wanted: Abuses against Female Migrant Domestic
Workers in Indonesia and Malaysia Human Rights Watch Report, Vol. 16, No 9(C), July 2004 www.hrw.org/reports/2004/indonesia0704/3.htm [accessed 13 February 2011] I. SUMMARY - The agent came to my house and
promised me a job in a house in I worked for five people, the
children were grown up. I cleaned the house, the kitchen, washed the
floor, ironed, vacuumed, and cleaned the car. I worked from 5:00 a.m.
to 2:00 a.m. every day. I never had a break; I was just stealing time
to get a break. I was paid just one time, 200 ringgit
[U.S.$52.63]. I just ate bread, there was no rice [for me]. I was
hungry. I slept in the kitchen on a mat. I was not allowed
outside of the house. ─
Interview with Nyatun Wulandari,
age twenty-three, returned domestic worker, Lombok,
Indonesia, January 25, 2004. In Indonesia, prospective migrant
workers secure employment in Malaysia through both licensed and unlicensed
labor agents who often extort money, falsify travel documents, and mislead
women and girls about their work arrangements. In both Indonesian training
centers and in Malaysian workplaces, women migrant domestic workers often
suffer severe restrictions on their freedom of movement; psychological and
physical abuse, including sexual abuse; and prohibitions on practicing their
religion. Pervasive labor rights abuses in the workplace include
extremely long hours of work without overtime pay, no rest days, and
incomplete and irregular payment of wages. In some cases, deceived
about the conditions and type of work, confined at the workplace, and
receiving no salary at all, women are caught in situations of trafficking and
forced labor Asia Pacific, ABC Radio At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 6 September 2011] There are claims that the Indonesian
military and police have been extorting bribes from Acehnese
asylum seekers and selling them into slavery. The claims have been backed by
refugee advocates working closely with the UN refugee agency in Malaysia,
where thousands of Acehnese are facing expulsion
under a government crackdown on illegal workers. Fighting sexual exploitation and trafficking in Indonesia UNICEF, At a Glance: www.unicef.org/infobycountry/indonesia_23650.html [accessed 13 February 2011] Yani was 15 when her boyfriend lured
her away from home with false promises of a lucrative job and a chance to
continue her education. After a long journey by car to an unknown
destination, she was raped by a middle-aged Indonesian man who beat her
unconscious after she refused his advances. She was immediately sold to a
brothel where she was guarded day and night. Indonesia to Intensify Battle vs
Human Trafficking Inter Press Service News Agency IPS, www.ipsnews.net/migration/stories/briefs1.html [accessed 13 February 2011] An estimated 230,000 Indonesian
women and children have been trafficked from their home villages in Java,
Sumatra, West Nusa Tenggara
and Forced labour and exploitation of Indonesian migrant
workers Anti-Slavery International, the Indonesian Migrant
Workers' -- Submission to the United Nations Commission on Human
Rights, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 6 September 2011] Since the early 1980s, poverty,
high unemployment and lack of educational opportunities have been driving
Indonesian migrants abroad in search of work, and by the late 1990s, they
were among the fastest-growing migrant population in Slavery continues to plague Indonesian migrant workers www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-3485690_ITM [accessed 13 February 2011] How tragic and terrible has been
the violence against a great number of Indonesian women employed overseas
this year! Not only were they harassed, physically abused or even raped but
were also sent home without proper payment or traded from one employer to
another. Many women workers who had just
arrived home from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Malaysia and Singapore said how they
were insulted and beaten if they made mistakes in performing their daily
tasks, how they had to work overtime without extra pay, how they were
sexually harassed or raped by their male employers or their relatives and how
they were physically attacked by their female employers after they had been forced to have sex
with their male employers. Behind "the success
story" of most migrant workers, many have to endure brutality and
undergo a form of slavery to gain 600 riyal per month in Saudi Arabia, or 300
ringgit in Malaysia. ILO Cites Child Labour, Forced Prostitution in acr.hrschool.org/mainfile.php/0136/175/ [accessed 13 February 2011] Children as young as 13 are
involved in the drug trade in Women Rescued from Sex Ring Muguntun Vanar,
“13 Indons rescued from forced prostitution,"
The Star, 1 February 2003 www.smc.org.ph/amnews/amn030215/southeast/indonesia030215.htm [accessed 13 February 2011] WOMEN RESCUED FROM SEX RING - Malaysian police and the staff
of the Indonesian consulate have rescued 13 Indonesian women allegedly forced
into the sex trade in the interior Keningau
district. The rescue came a week after two of them escaped from the
hotel. The women, aged between 14 and 24, were sent back to Indonesia
through Tawau. The Keningau
police are reportedly questioning the alleged pimp and three of his
assistants. Trafficking of Women and Children in Indonesia www.solidaritycenter.org/content.asp?contentid=929 [accessed 13 February 2011] This
300-page report was published as part of a joint Solidarity Center/
International Catholic Migration Committee countertrafficking
campaign in Indonesia, where hundreds of thousands of young girls are lured
away from their homes each year under false pretenses, sold into bondage,
physically and sexually abused, sent out into the streets as beggars, or
worse. Indonesia’s President Wahid joins ILO Battle Against Child
Labour International Labour Organisation (ILO) News, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 6 September 2011] Union Network International UNI in Depth, 10/26/2000 [accessed 13 February 2011] Investigators believe the children
- aged between 6 and 17 - are among up to 1,000 separated from their parents
at the height of violence in East Timor last year and later from refugee
camps in Child Labour on Indonesian Fishing Platforms The Indonesian NGO, KKSP Foundation and Anti-Slavery
International -- Submission to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights,
Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Working Group
on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, 25th Session, Geneva, 14-23 June 2000 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 6 September 2011] The Indonesian NGO, KKSP
Foundation and Anti-Slavery International have long been concerned about the
use of children on hundreds of rickety fishing platforms, known locally as jermals, in the seas off the northeast coast of Children can fall or be carried
off by large waves during storms and there are no life jackets on the
platforms. The children suffer from fatigue because of the very long hours
they work and interrupted sleep patterns. In such a state it is easy to lose
concentration and fall from the platform or let a hand slip from the winch. Charles Wallace, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 6 September 2011] Suyatmi, a shy, 20-year old factory
worker, is too poor to know much about sneakers. She's never heard of Bo
Jackson and is too skinny to care about aerobics.
Her world consists of a rented, 5-foot sqaure room in a shantytown where she sits on the
concrete floor with three other young women.
Every day a t 7 a.m., Suyatmi
begins work at P.T. Hardaya Aneka
Shoes Industry, one of six companies in Indonesia making shoes for Nike Inc.,
the spectacurly successful U.S. sporting goods
company. Her production "line" of 30 workers produces 350 pairs of
Nike's glitzy footwear a day. Suyatmi and her co-workers earn a base salary of 1,900
Indonesian rupiahs a day, the equivalent of $1.15.
Working a six-day week, with a least two hours of overtime each day, she
takes home about $17 per week. The company also gives her lunch and a bus
ride to work. "Some days it's hard,"
she said. "But I'm just happy to have a job." All material used herein
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