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1 results foundAuthor: Mihardja, Suma Title: Combating Sex Trafficking in Indonesia through Community Empowerment and Education Summary: Sex services have always been part of human history. However, due to its lucrative business nature, the increase of the sex industry in the last few decades is largely the result of national and international socio-economic and political policies. Globalization has made the poor get poorer and many countries are in financial and political crisis. Women are generally the poorest of the poor and are preyed on by recruiters, traffickers, and pimps. Global sexual exploitation has increased due to rise in military presence in many parts of the world; racial myths and stereotypes; and women's inequality. There are at least four main actors in sex trafficking: (1) the men who buy commercial sex acts, (2) the exploiters who make up the sex industry, (3) the states that are destination countries, and (4) the culture that tolerates or promotes sexual exploitation. This paper reviews Indonesian government policy regarding laws on combating sex trafficking and offers recommendations to improve the quality of reducing sex trafficking in Indonesia. It provides an overview of sex trafficking problem in Indonesia, Indonesia's responses to date and the likely effectiveness of those strategies to eradicate sex trafficking regarding the position of Indonesia in the globalized world. The following are recommendations to combat sex trafficking in Indonesia: (1) set zero tolerance policies for sex trafficking; (2) set an abolitionist approach to sex trafficking and prostitution; (3) redefine prevention; (4) end tolerance for the illegal sex trade, including open advertising of criminal activity; (5) redefine and rename police department units to combat sex trafficking; (6) end discrimination against victims in arrest and prosecution of trafficking and prostitution-related offenses; (7) increase criminal investigation of exploiters; (8) train law enforcer to recognize exploiter behaviour and signs of victimization; (9) devise strategies to combat different markets for victims; (10) review state approaches to prostitution for effectiveness in reducing the demand for victims and for eliminating the markets for victims. The following are some operational programs to combat sex trafficking: (1) Producing community education materials such as pamphlets, brochures, leaflets, posters, banners, compact disc, mass media (printed, audio and audio-visual); (2) Proposing formal and non-formal community education through inserting specific materials describing the risk of sex business, modus operandi of sex trafficking actions, and practice to avoid sex trafficking; and (3) Proposing the poverty eradication to minimize the push factor of sex trafficking. The program consists of broad range of community empowerment as mental and spiritual guidance, vocational training, women's living skills, family welfare counselling, and saving and loans or micro finance credit schemes. Details: Canberra, Australia: AusAID, 2008. 50p. Source: Discussion and Direction Policy Paper: Internet Resource: Accessed April 24, 2012 at http://pse.litbang.deptan.go.id/eng/pdffiles/Semrut_13_04_09.pdf Year: 2008 Country: Indonesia URL: http://pse.litbang.deptan.go.id/eng/pdffiles/Semrut_13_04_09.pdf Shelf Number: 125050 Keywords: Sex Industry (Indonesia)Sex Trafficking (Indonesia) |