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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery Republic
of Indonesia [ Country-by-Country
Reports ] The Indonesia is a source, transit, and
destination country for women, children, and men trafficked for the purposes
of sexual exploitation and forced labor. The number of women trafficked to Japan
under the guise of "cultural performers" decreased over the past
year. Women from West Kalimantan who migrate to Taiwan and Hong Kong as
contract brides are often forced into prostitution or debt bondage. A
significant number of Indonesian women who go overseas each year to work as
domestic servants are subjected to exploitation and conditions of involuntary
servitude in Malaysia, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Syria, Kuwait, Taiwan,
and Hong Kong. Some of Indonesia's licensed and
unlicensed migrant labor recruiting agencies operated in ways similar to
trafficking rings, leading both male and female workers into debt bondage and
abusive labor situations. Internal sex and labor trafficking is rampant
throughout Indonesia from rural to urban areas. The Riau Islands continued as
transit and destination points for Indonesian women and girls trafficked for
sexual exploitation. Young women and girls are trafficked from
the Riau Islands to Malaysia and Singapore by pimps for short trips.
Malaysians and Singaporeans constitute the largest number of sex tourists,
and the Riau Islands and surrounding areas operate a "prostitution
economy." An alarming number of Indonesians trafficked to Malaysia and
Saudi Arabia are subjected to severe physical and sexual abuse. Trafficking
of "brides" to Taiwan for sexual exploitation persists. Women from
the People's Republic of China, Thailand, Hong Kong, Uzbekistan, the
Netherlands, Poland, Venezuela, Spain, and Ukraine are trafficked to
Indonesia for sexual exploitation, although the numbers are small compared
with the number of Indonesians trafficked for this purpose. - U.S. State
Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2007 [full
country report] |
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Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - The December 26 tsunami left
thousands of children in Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 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) - 2004 [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. Church
slams daily human trafficking and authorities’ complicity 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 Indonesia 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 Indonesian police have arrested 15
people for alleged trafficking of women and girls to Malaysia who eventually
ended up in the flesh trade and at nightspots. Its security and transnational crime
vice-director, Bachtiar Hasanudin Tambunan, said the victims, mostly from
West Java, were promised restaurant jobs with large salaries before finding
themselves working in cafes, discotheques and brothels. Human
Trafficking Rate in Indonesia Still High 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 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 The crimes are many forms:
distribution of 880 babies from North Sumatra to Singapore by a foundation,
for instance. The babies, she explained,
were re-sold when they arrived in Singapore.
If they were caught in action at sea, the babies were often thrown out
of board so as to wipe the evidence. US
Official Urges Indonesia to Crack Down on Human Trafficking On Saturday, at a crisis center in
Jakarta run by the International Organization for Migration, Miller met with
dozens of Indonesians who were forced to work in neighboring Malaysia. He
also spoke to reporters. "They
tell of agents here deceiving them, of employers over there working them 15,
18 hours a day, of being beaten, of having their stomachs stomped on. This is
something we must all work together to stop," he said. 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 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 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. 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 Microsoft Corp. has awarded over $US 1 million through its Unlimited Potential grants to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) across six Asian countries. The latest round of grants will deliver IT training courses specifically for people in human-trafficking hot spots across the region - often women and children. Human trafficking has been described as "the emerging human rights issue of the 21st century" by the US State Department. 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 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 Girls from the villages of Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia
and the Philippines are lured into cities or neighboring countries with
promises of lucrative jobs as waitresses and domestic helpers, only to end up
in massage parlors and karaoke bars.
Others are flown as far as Freedom
House Country Report - Political Rights: 2 Civil Liberties: 3 Status: Free Human Rights Overview by Human
Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide U.S. Library of Congress
- Country Study ARCHIVES 2005 2005 Tsunami orphans available for the right price 2005 CONFIRMED CHILD TRAFFICKING
IN 2005 US issues guidelines to prevent human
trafficking in tsunami-hit 2004 Call for
legal reforms to protect children in 2004 [DOC] Report … Concerning the Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children in 2004 2004 UNICEF calls on 2004 Report:
Abuses against Female Migrant Domestic Workers in 2004 Indonesian military, police accused of
human trafficking 2004 Thousands of children working in the sex industry - 100,000 children & women
trafficked 2004 2003 Forced
labor and exploitation of Indonesian migrant workers 2003 Slavery
continues to plague Indonesian migrant workers 2003 ILO
Cites Child Labor, Forced Prostitution in 2003 13
Indonesian women allegedly forced into the sex trade rescued from forced
prostitution 2003 Trafficking of women and children in Indonesia
- Case studies [PDF] 2000 2000 Children
held in slavery.- forced to work in factory sweatshops, plantations or as
prostitutes 2000 Child Labor on Indonesian Fishing Platforms 1992 Is it slavery? Nike Labor Practices in All material used herein
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