INDONESIA -- ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT 2009

UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 19 JAKARTA 000378

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SUBJECT: INDONESIA -- ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT 2009

REF: A) STATE 132759
B) JAKARTA 105


1. (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate General Surabaya
and Consulate Medan.


2. (SBU) OVERVIEW: The past year did not witness significant
change in overall trafficking patterns in Indonesia. There is a
continuous trend of Indonesians seeking work abroad as high
unemployment and poverty pushes workers overseas. Cases of severe
abuse of Indonesians trafficked abroad continued unabated. END
OVERVIEW.


3. (SBU) SUMMARY: Indonesia passed all the implementing
regulations required under the comprehensive 2007 anti-trafficking
law. For the third year in a row, police arrests increased, up 15
percent in 2008 over 2007. However, prosecutions dropped 32 percent
and convictions fell 15 percent. Police and the Manpower Ministry
continued to shut down manpower brokers involved in trafficking
although protection of migrant workers remained weak.


4. (SBU) Jakarta police intensified cooperation with RSO Jakarta in
investigating trafficking syndicates to the United States, resulting
in efforts which addressed trafficking across the board. The
Department of Justice's Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development
Assistance and Training (DOJ/OPDAT) also conducted training, for the
first time integrating the full range of GOI agencies involved in
fighting trafficking. Progress continued in fighting
trafficking-related corruption, including the arrest and prosecution
of several immigration officials. Law enforcement and increased
awareness pushed traffickers to target victims from more isolated
areas.


5. (SBU) The Manpower Minister gave prominent public attention to
trafficking by meeting with victims in Malaysia and by holding talks
with counterparts on preventing trafficking in border areas between
Indonesia and Malaysia. The media and public information campaigns
gave widespread attention to trafficking with a barrage of publicity
across the country. Provincial and local governments significantly
increased efforts and resources to fight trafficking nationwide.
Overseas, Indonesian embassies and consulates were very proactive in
rescuing and assisting victims, with strong leadership from the
Foreign Ministry.


6. (SBU) However, some serious roadblocks to fighting trafficking
remained in place. The GOI showed little political will to
renegotiate an MOU with Malaysia which ceded basic workers' rights
to hold their travel documents. Exploitation of workers by manpower
placement companies continued to be widespread despite police and
Manpower Ministry action, due to insufficient regulation. The
decentralized approach to rescuing, treating and reintegrating
victims has hindered implementation of the law due to lack of
central direction and funding to assist victims. The national
budget for trafficking remained far below needs. There was little
progress in stopping officials from abetting trafficking in
prostitution. No action was taken to protect women and children
entrapped in debt bondage as domestic servants within Indonesia,
although the GOI publicly recognized this as a major issue in 2008.
Domestic servants have fallen into a crack in the law enforcement
system with no authorities taking action to protect them from
trafficking.


7. (SBU) Indonesia needs to take the following actions to make
further headway in curbing trafficking:

--Greatly accelerate efforts to combat the corruption that feeds
trafficking, particularly among law enforcement officials and
manpower officials.

--Increase GOI funding for law enforcement against traffickers and
for rescue, recovery and reintegration of victims.

--Increase efforts to regulate recruiters. Not only should the GOI
actively monitor recruiters and investigate complaints but it should
set standards for the terms of recruiting agreements such as the
levels of fees charged to the workers. These high fee agreements can
sometimes lead to debt bondage.

--Pursue better cooperation with receiving countries in combating
trafficking.

--Better protect domestic workers within Indonesia, particularly

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children, through enforcement of existing laws.

--Ensure that the newly formed task forces are functional,
well-funded and that the coordination from a local to national level
is effective. In particular, at the national level, there should be
a greater sharing of responsibility between national departments and
agency members of the National Task Force. Currently, the Ministry
of Women's Empowerment is bearing a disproportionate burden of
implementing trafficking activities in Indonesia and does not have
to resources or capacity to effectively bear this burden. END
SUMMARY.

SOURCES
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8. (SBU) The U.S. Mission in Indonesia received information from
the following sources: the Indonesian National Police (INP) which
provided a report in February 2008, "Law Enforcement Against
Trafficking in Persons" as well as detailed data on investigations
and arrests; the Ministry of Women's Empowerment which provided
comprehensive information of national efforts; the Attorney
General's Office (AGO); the Manpower and Transmigration Ministry
(the Manpower Ministry); the Department of Foreign Affairs, Office
of Overseas Manpower Protection; and a number of local government
offices. International and domestic NGOs also provided information,
in particular the American Center for International Labor Solidarity
(ACILS),International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the
International Labor Organization (ILO).


9. (U) The report text follows the general outline of themes and
questions provided in ref A instructions.


10. (U) The Jakarta Mission point of contact on the TIP issue is
Deputy Political Counselor and Labor Attache Stanley Harsha, tel.
(62) 21-3435-9146, fax (62) 21-3435-9116.


11. (SBU) Report text follows:

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I. OVERVIEW OF INDONESIA'S ACTIVITIES TO
ELIMINATE TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
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The past year did not witness significant change in overall
trafficking patterns in Indonesia. There is a continuous trend of
Indonesians seeking work abroad as high unemployment and poverty
pushes workers overseas. Cases of severe abuse of Indonesians
trafficked abroad continued unabated.

INDONESIA FACES SIGNIFICANT TRAFFICKING CRIMES
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Indonesia, a developing country and emerging democracy with the
world's fourth largest population, is a place of origin for a
significant number of internationally trafficked women and children,
and to a lesser extent men. Indonesia is also a transit and
destination country for international trafficking, although foreign
victims are very small in number relative to Indonesian victims.
Very significant incidents of trafficking occur within Indonesia's
borders, including for prostitution. Different regions of the
country are identifiable as sending, transiting and/or receiving
areas for internal as well as international trafficking. There were
no reports during this period of trafficking in territory outside of
GOI control.

SOURCE REGIONS
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All provinces of Indonesia are both sources and destinations.
Primary origin areas include: Java, West Kalimantan, Lampung, North
Sumatra, South Sumatra, Banten, South Sulawesi, West Nusa Tenggara
and East Nusa Tenggara. One NGO reported a small number of persons
(seven documented) trafficked from Aceh Province, a disturbing new
development given the large number of children in Aceh affected by
earlier conflict and the 2005 tsunami.

TRANSIT AREAS
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Primary transit areas are: Jakarta, Surabaya, Bali, Batam, North
Sumatra, West Sumatra, border areas of Kalimantan and various
islands in eastern Indonesia. Domestic routes varied.

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DESTINATIONS
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Primary domestic destinations are: Java, Bali, North Sumatra, East
Kalimantan and Papua. A disturbing trend in recent years has been
an increase in trafficking of young girls, many under age 18, from
North Sulawesi, West Kalimantan, and Papua, where they were sexually
exploited in areas with rich extractive industries, according to
NGOs. A Manado-based NGO reported that more than 80 girls were
trafficked from North Sulawesi between January and September 2007,
an average of two girls per week. In 2008, NGOs in Timika, Papua
province, located near a large mine, NGO research found between
100-200 women and girls trafficked to bars and a red light district.
Girls from North Sulawesi and Jawa were promised legitimate
well-paying jobs as waitresses and then forced into prostitution.
Many were under age 18. Local government officials took little
action against this trafficking, with only four cases prosecuted and
one brought to court.

Internationally, following are the primary destinations in rough
order of magnitude based on 2005-2009 IOM data of rescued victims:
Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Japan, Syria, Kuwait, and Iraq.
Other destinations include: Taiwan, Thailand, Macau, Hong Kong,
UEA, Qatar, Mauritius, Yemen, Palestine, Egypt, France, Belgium,
Germany, Cyprus, Spain, Holland and the United States.

In the latter half of 2007, an RSO investigation working with
Jakarta police uncovered trafficking operations to the U.S.

TYPES OF WORKERS EXPLOITED
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Men and boys, women and girls, are all widely trafficked. IOM data
revealed the following breakdown of the victims it assisted: 55
percent domestic workers, 15 percent sex workers, and 5 percent
plantation workers. Under three percent each were waitresses,
construction workers, shopkeepers, nannies, fishermen, masseuses,
and cultural dancers. Females comprised 89 percent and males 11
percent; 75 percent were adults 25 percent were children.

CHILDREN
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As outlined in the Mission's 2008 Worst Form of Child Labor Report
(ref B),children are trafficked for a variety of purposes, but
primarily into domestic servitude, prostitution, rural agriculture
and cottage industries. According to a study by Human Rights Watch
published in February 2009, many girls under age 18, and even under
age 15, work long hours - typically 14-16 hours a day at low wages
as domestic servants. They are oftentimes under perpetual debt
bondage due to pay advances given to the children's families by
brokers. The problem is hidden because children work under lock and
key. So-called "foundations" are commonly used as fronts for
trafficking children as domestic servants. In 2007, one NGO
identified
285 child domestic workers in Bandung and 305 in Surabaya under age
17, mostly under age 15.

A child rights activist rescued teenagers in illegal logging camps
in the jungles of West Kalimantan in 2008. Girls aged 13-17 were
lured with promises of employment as waitresses or maids, and then
sexually enslaved, servicing loggers, their bosses and forestry
officials.


RELIABLE STATISTICS UNAVAILABLE
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Reliable statistics or estimates of the overall number of
victims--including number of prostitutes and child victims--are
unavailable.

TRAFFICKING CONDITIONS, METHODS
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For internal trafficking into the sex trade, traffickers used debt
bondage, violence, intimidation, drug addiction, and withholding of
documents to keep women and children in prostitution. Traffickers
employ a variety of means to attract and hold victims, including
promises of well-paying jobs, debt bondage, community or family
pressures, threats of violence, rape, and false marriages. For

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example, women who escaped from forced prostitution in Batam, Papua
and Malaysia commonly related that traffickers recruited the young
women with offers of jobs in restaurants, supermarkets or as
domestic servants. Once at their destination, traffickers used
violence and rape to force them into the sex trade. Migrant worker
recruiters also use misrepresentation and debt bondage to traffic
men and women.

Police found in 2008 that traffickers are now occasionally
kidnapping victims. They are drugged, transferred by car through
the border areas from Indonesia to Malaysia and then sexually
exploited. For example, a junior high school student was kidnapped
by five masked men in Lampung, Sumatra in June 2008. The victim was
drugged and taken to Jakarta with three other victims from West Java
and sent to Malaysia, where she eventually escaped from a brothel.


Another new method which police discovered in 2008 was recruiting
victims through schools. Brokers sent schools official-looking
letters offering internship programs to students. For example, 16
students from a vocational school in Bulukumba, South Sulawesi were
offered an internship on a cruise ship but ended up being enslaved
on a fishing boat, working 23 hours a day without salary. Teachers
at this school were implicated in this case. Some students in
vocational school in Banyuwangi and Surabaya, both in East Java,
also received similar offers. This method is difficult to
distinguish from legitimate internships.

Debt bondage is particularly common in the sex trade. Indonesian
women and girls trafficked into prostitution in Batam, Riau, for
example, commonly began with a debt of USD600-1,200. Given the
constant accumulation of other debts, women and girls are often
unable to repay these amounts, even after years of work as
prostitutes.

Some migrant workers, often female, also entered trafficking
situations during their attempt to find work abroad through migrant
worker recruiting companies (PJTKI). Licensed and unlicensed
companies used debt bondage, withholding of documents and
confinement in locked premises to keep migrant workers in holding
centers, sometimes for periods of many months. Some also used
threats of violence to maintain control over prospective migrant
workers.

Traffickers took advantage of persons in impoverished regions.
While poverty plays a leading role in facilitating trafficking, poor
educational opportunities, cultural factors and established
trafficking networks also acted as important determinants. For
example, in Indramayu, West Java, some farming communities have
adopted a widely accepted practice of selling girls into
prostitution in Japan in order for families to accumulate material
possessions, a cycle which has proven difficult to break.

Indonesians sometimes arrive legally in one country, for example
Malaysia, and then are provided with false documentation and lured
to more remote locations, such as the Middle East and Europe, where
they are trafficked.

TRAFFICKERS
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Traffickers fit many different profiles. Some worked in larger
mafia-like organizations, particularly for trafficking into major
prostitution areas. Others operated as small or family-run
businesses. In many instances, local community leaders and parents
of victims assisted in trafficking.

Some manpower brokers operated similar to trafficking rings, leading
both male and female workers into debt bondage, abusive employment
situations and other trafficking situations. Some of the offending
manpower companies held official licenses. Others operated
illegally or appeared to be fronts for traffickers.

RSO Jakarta uncovered new trafficking syndicates in 2008 using these
techniques to traffic workers to the U.S. These syndicates provided
victims with false documents to procure visas to the U.S., after
which they were turned over to agents in the U.S. who used debt
bondage to enslave the victims.

OFFICIAL COMPLICITY
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Enforcement of the new anti-trafficking law deterred local officials
from issuing false documentation for trafficking purposes, thus
greatly inhibiting the ability of traffickers to obtain false
documents. Some individual members of the security forces were
complicit in trafficking, particularly by providing protection to
brothels and prostitution fronts in discos, karaoke bars and hotels,
or by receiving bribes to turn a blind eye to such crimes.

DATA ON PROSTITUTION
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Prostitution constitutes a major source of concern for TIP in
Indonesia due to the number of women and children involved; the
clandestine, abusive and often forced nature of this work; the
prevalence of organized crime; and the frequent awareness and/or
complicity of officials and security forces (police and military) in
prostitution. There is no reliable data on the number of girls and
women forced into prostitution through debt bondage but the numbers
are significant.

GOI officials and NGOs often criticized police officers as too
passive in combating trafficking absent specific complaints.
Although police were often aware of underage prostitutes or other
trafficking situations, they frequently did not intervene to protect
victims or arrest probable traffickers without specific reports from
third parties. Police in some areas facilitated and accepted at face
value efforts by pimps to obtain written statements by prostitutes,
which "verified" that the prostitutes were of adult age and had
consented to their roles. Police in some areas generally accepted
trafficking situations, whether out of lack of awareness of
trafficking as a crime, their involvement in trafficking, or lack of
police resources for operations.

INDONESIAN VICTIMS IN MALAYSIA
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Malaysia is commonly identified as the country receiving the
greatest number of Indonesian trafficking victims. An oversupply of
Indonesian women and girls in Malaysia results in placement agencies
in Malaysia offering incentives to more families to hire foreign
maids, including offering the employer recovery of fees from the
employee through wage reductions. The first five months of wages
are commonly deducted.

IOM reported that from March 2005 to January 2009, 71 percent of
female victims rescued from overseas had chlamydia, and a
significant proportion had other STDs, including 4 percent who were
HIV positive.

A 2006 bilateral MOU between Indonesia and Malaysia failed to give
adequate protection to Indonesian migrant workers, opening the door
to abuse. The agreement allows employers to hold workers' passports
restricting their freedom to return home, allows monthly deductions
of up to 50 percent of negotiated wages to repay loans and advances,
and does not specify time off. The GOI has demonstrated little
political will to address this issue.

"CULTURAL PERFORMERS" IN JAPAN
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GOI stopped permitting Indonesian women to travel to Japan and South
Korea as "cultural performers" in June 2006, thus curtailing a
practice that led to victims being trafficked under this guise.
However, in 2008, traffickers increasingly used false documents,
including passports, to obtain tourist visas for young girls who are
forced into prostitution in Japan to repay a debt. The false
documentation makes it all the more difficult for them to escape
from sexual slavery. However, the Japanese government stepped up
law enforcement cooperation with GOI in 2008 to prevent girls being
trafficked to Japan.

Taiwan
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Trafficking of young girls to Taiwan - mainly from West
Kalimantan - persisted in 2008. Traffickers used false marriage
licenses and phony marriage photos for the girls to obtain visas.
While many marriages are legitimate, many girls and women also are
forced into prostitution.

Middle East
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Large-scale trafficking to the Middle East persists, Saudi Arabia
being the worst offender. Victims from Saudi Arabia typically
return extremely brutalized and report that they have no protection
from exploitation and abuse in Saudi Arabia. For example, one
victim was beaten to death and sent home in a coffin with no
explanation in 2008. Another women, Keni Binti Carda, was burned
with an iron, stabbed through the tongue and forced to eat feces
before being sent home in early 2009 without and opportunity to
report her abuse to authorities. Many Muslim girls are lured to
Saudi Arabia with promises of a good salary and the opportunity to
make a pilgrimage to Mecca, a dream far beyond their financial
means. An increasing trend is for Saudi employers to contract out
their domestic servants to several households, withhold wages, and
then find an excuse to return the worker home unpaid.

The UAE, Jordan and Iraq are also destination countries, though
others exist. Dozens of women trafficked to Iraq remained trapped
in 2008. GOI had little access to these girls and Iraqi law
enforcement authorities were of no assistance. IOM helped to rescue
a number of these women.

The Department of Foreign Affairs asked labor supplying companies to
stop sending migrant workers to conflict areas. The call came after
a recent release of a migrant worker, Umi Saodah, working in
war-torn Gaza, and other reports that another 14 Indonesian migrant
workers remained in politically unstable regions, such as Yemen and
Palestine.


BURMA
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A Burmese seafarer, a chief engineer, was trafficked to Indonesia in
December 2007. An Indonesian shipping company which employed him
paid him only part of his wages and then tried to force him to work
another contract by holding his passport. The Burma Embassy would
not issue a new passport. This seafarer remains stranded in Jakarta
over a year later, supported by the Seafarers Union, and a police
investigation has failed to secure his passport. This seafarer said
other Burmese seafarers have been similarly exploited.


MIGRANT WORKERS
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Legal and illegal migrant workers are equally likely to be
trafficked, in large part because in some destination countries,
such as Malaysia, employers have the right to hold the workers'
documentation. Many workers prefer to go abroad to work illegally
because they are in more control of their own destiny. In 2008,
large numbers of Indonesian migrant workers abroad were laid off due
to the global financial crisis, increasing concerns that these
workers would be more vulnerable to trafficking. Similarly,
increasing lay-offs of workers in Indonesia raised concerns that
these workers would be forced to seek jobs as migrant workers and be
vulnerable to trafficking.

FOREIGN VICTIMS IN INDONESIA
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According to an American researcher who conducted a study in 2007 on
trafficking of women in Southeast Asia, the vast majority of foreign
prostitutes in Indonesia are from Mainland China. Smugglers told
this researcher that they estimate the number to be between 4,000
and 20,000, many under debt bondage. The pimps/smugglers kept their
passports and said it was easy to extend the visas with bribes.
Other victims came from Thailand and eastern Europe. In one major
operation in December 2008, police rescued 39 women trafficked into
prostitution in Jakarta, including a number exploited as masseuses
in a five-star hotel. The women came from China, Thailand, Tibet,
Mongolia and Uzbekistan.

POLITICAL WILL
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Political will to fight trafficking was clear at the national
leadership level as well as at local levels in 2008, while awareness
of the issue continued to penetrate through government agencies.
President Yudhoyono made trafficking a top issue in his travels to
destination countries. In 2007, he convened a cabinet meeting at
which he called for action to ensure better treatment and protection

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of Indonesian migrant workers. The Minister of Manpower made
trafficking the top issue in his 2008 visit to Malaysia.

A Malaysian law enforcement delegation visited Indonesia in late
2007 to discuss better cooperation to protect Indonesian migrant
workers. Indonesia sent a reciprocal law enforcement mission to
Malaysia in early 2009. A joint Malaysian-Indonesian mission also
toured border areas in early 2009 to discuss means to interdict
trafficking.

Furthermore, the President has appointed senior level officials in
key positions with clear instructions to eliminate trafficking,
resulting in noticeable progress in law enforcement. The government
has trained over a thousand law enforcement officials on fighting
trafficking, often times in interagency courses also attended by
NGOs. The number of special anti-trafficking police and prosecutors
greatly increased.

With the passage of the new anti-trafficking law, local task forces
in many provinces across Indonesia have reinvigorated their efforts.
For example, in Bandung, West Java, the local task force meets
regularly, sharing information among agencies and NGOs, and gaining
government funding for a local shelter and other support for
victims.

NATIONAL PLAN OF ACTION
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The GOI in 2008 completed its evaluation of the National Plan of
Action on Trafficking in Persons (NPA) for 2002 - 2007 and draft an
NPA for the period of 2009-2013.

While the first NPA was comprehensive and ambitious, its
implementation has been inconsistent. The 2007 law against
trafficking in persons has not been properly socialized, is often
not used in prosecutions against traffickers and still has not been
harmonized with other criminal laws or local regulations.
Similarly, while there have been efforts to improve services for
trafficking victims, integrated service centers have not been
established in all areas as required by the NPA. The NPA has not
been consistently used by stakeholders in local areas as a guideline
for anti-trafficking activities. Many local stakeholders did not
have NPA documents.

For the next NPA, the report recommends that Indonesia prioritize
six initiatives to combat trafficking. They are as follows:

--Coordination between government agencies: The first priority of
the new NPA should be the establishment of a secretariat with
full-time staff to take on centralized responsibility of ensuring
coordination between government agencies. To improve coordination,
budgets from each government agency should be coordinated to avoid
overlap of activities

--Data gathering and management: There is a lack of data and
information on trafficking patterns and responses within Indonesia.
A dedicated unit with full time staff to monitor the collection of
data on trafficking is needed.

--Reformation of the legal migration system to reduce opportunities
for exploitation: Many current policies are based on the assumption
that trafficking occurs through illegal migration streams. However,
the current migration system may facilitate exploitation and
trafficking and thus should be reviewed to ensure all possible
protections are in place while freedom of movement is respected.
There needs to be a greater focus on respect for the rights and
additional protections for migrant workers, with a particular focus
on domestic workers.

--Debt bondage practices are increasingly identified as a common
mechanism of exploitation that leads to trafficking and forced
labor. Widespread education of stakeholders on debt bondage as well
as awareness-raising of vulnerable communities is needed.

--Arrest, prosecution and asset confiscation of traffickers and
those facilitating trafficking: An increased commitment to effective
deterrence through criminal prosecution and monetary penalties is
needed, including asset confiscation of traffickers. Trafficking
needs to be made an unprofitable venture by pursuing corporations
complicit in trafficking and taking strong action against government
officials involved in trafficking practices.


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--Child Sexual Exploitation: Increase efforts around child sexual
exploitation are needed by reforming criminal laws so that the
purchase of sex from children is clearly criminalized. Specific
training is needed on this issue for the police and the general
public.

LIMITATIONS, RESOURCES
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The GOI through the Ministry of Women's Empowerment, charged with
coordinating efforts to implement the law, provided an
anti-trafficking budget of USD242,000 for 2008 and USD105,000 for

2009. Other departments that allocated budget for trafficking
include Social Ministry USD 200,000 (2008) and USD 300,000 (2009;
Health Ministry USD 24,000 (2009) and National Education Ministry
USD 1.5 million (2008) and USD2 million (2009)

In addition, the GOI took over funding the repatriation of rescued
trafficking victims in Malaysia, formerly funded by IOM.

Increasingly, local governments across Indonesia also provided
budgets, facilities and staff to assist trafficking victims.

Given the scope of the country's trafficking problem, Indonesia's
actions against trafficking, whether the responsibility of national
or local governments, continued to demonstrate serious weaknesses
and failings. Indonesia's relative poverty, weaknesses in
governance, poor public funding, and endemic corruption all
contributed to these shortcomings.

ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS
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As President Yudhoyono's clear stance on clean government filtered
down through the ranks, corrupt officials complicit in trafficking
have been fired, prosecuted or transferred. In 2008, immigration
officials were arrested for conspiring with traffickers in North
Sumatra and Jakarta, including immigration officials at Jakarta
international airport. In Tanjung Pinang, Riau Province - a major
destination and transit point for trafficked girls and women -
police arrested local government officials, immigration officials
and labor agents on charges of falsifying documents for trafficking.
Ministry of Manpower also imposed administrative sanctions on a
number of staff for assisting in trafficking. Manpower Ministry
also stepped up its cooperation with police to close down manpower
firms involved in trafficking, shutting down nine operations.

In June 2008, former Indonesian ambassador to Malaysia General (ret)
Rusdihardjo - a former national chief of police -- was sentenced to
two years in prison for overcharging for immigration documents. The
court also jailed former embassy immigration head, Arihken Tarigan,
for four years in the same case.

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II. PREVENTION OF TRAFFICKING
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A 2007 survey contracted by USAID included questions on Indonesian
migrant workers, revealing a high awareness level of the dangers of
working abroad: about two-thirds of Indonesians believed that
Indonesians who work abroad are likely to suffer from physical or
psychological abuse from employers, while 60 percent believed that
it is not worth seeking work abroad because of the high costs. Only
three percent have seriously considered working abroad, and among
those who do not want to work abroad, 15 percent said they fear
mistreatment, while 21 percent say the costs of seeking work abroad
are too high.

In 2008, documentary films depicting the plights of trafficking
victims were screened nationwide and the media continued to publish
hundreds of articles on the issue. Major national newspapers
frequently devoted entire pages or sections to in-depth analysis of
trafficking, particularly the nation's largest newspaper, Kompas.
Organizations such as Migrant Care, the Women's Protection
Commission and the Child Protection Commission received widespread
publicity for their frequent news conferences highlighting
trafficking problems.

In areas such as North Sulawesi, traffickers resorted to recruiting
in more isolated villages because of increased community awareness
and law enforcement. In Indramayu, West Java, where entire villages
were once depleted of girls trafficked overseas for sexual

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exploitation, trafficking in some villages has been entirely
eliminated due to community efforts. While trafficking continues to
be rampant, across Indonesia efforts to stop trafficking reached new
highs in 2008.

In January 2007, the National Agency for the Placement and
Protection of Overseas Workers was (BNP) was established.
The agency took over the Ministry of Manpower's responsibilities to
protect migrant workers, such as facilitating labor export and
providing legal protection. The agency was established as required
by the 2004 Overseas Labor Placement and Protection Law. BNP's
jurisdiction to protect migrant workers is unclear vis a vis the
Manpower Ministry. Both bodies have been largely ineffective in
protecting migrant workers from trafficking.

However, under BNP's management, a new migrant worker transit
Terminal Four opened up in 2008 at Jakarta international airport,
providing better care for trafficked victims. BNP officers do
limited screening of returning migrant workers to detect if they
were trafficked. A medical doctor and beds are available for
victims. Legal Aid Society staff is allowed access and checks to
ensure migrant workers are protected and trafficking victims receive
care. However, during Labatt visits to Terminal Four, it was
obvious that most trafficking victims were not being detected during
the screening process. Furthermore, indigent trafficking victims
were forced to spend up to several days at the facility without
adequate food until they could find funds to pay for official
transport home.

Legal Aid Society curtailed the practice of labor brokers picking up
trafficked victims at Terminal Four and forcing them back into debt
bondage. However, traffickers simply began intercepting victims on
arrival at the regular passenger terminal, gaining control over the
victims through complicity of immigration officials, an NGO
monitoring the situation reported. The regular arrival terminal has
no monitoring system to protect against this abuse.

In West Kalimantan, a short film on trafficking was shown at the
waiting room of the Immigration Office in Singkawang.

GOI SUPPORT TO OTHER PREVENTION PROGRAMS
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The GOI supported and administered other national programs related
to the prevention of trafficking, but not designed specifically as
anti-trafficking efforts. These programs commonly faced serious
constraints in terms of GOI limited funds, institutional capacity,
and corruption. Some of the more relevant programs were:

--A program to encourage free basic public education through the
first nine years of schooling, including subsidies for students from
poor families. A number of districts announced their achievement of
free public schooling.

--School Subsidy Operation providing a subsidy to poor people.

--A national program to eliminate gender inequality in education.

--Programs to train female migrant workers.

--Credit schemes for micro-businesses, some of which focused on
women.

--Revolving credit schemes for cooperatives and savings and loan
associations.

--The Directorate of Women and Child Labor Monitoring in the
Manpower Ministry has allocated funds for the establishment and
operation of Provincial and District Action Committees on the
Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor.

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOI, NGOs AND OTHER ELEMENTS
-------------- --------------

The overall relationship between relevant GOI offices and NGOs
remained cooperative and mutually supportive on TIP-related issues.
Cooperation varied from agency to agency and location to location.
The GOI recognized the importance of NGO expertise, networks and
involvement. NGOs met regularly with officials and participated in
national and local task forces. The GOI and NGOs collaborated on
many TIP initiatives, including in protection of victims, public
awareness-raising, and in providing assistance to law enforcement

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officials in investigations and prosecutions. The police and NGOs
continued to share information on trafficking, although mutual
suspicions between NGOs and police sometimes prevented their
cooperation.

MONITORING OF IMMIGRATION/EMIGRATION
--------------

The implementation of bio-metric passports assisted immigration
officials to stop trafficking of children. Immigration, police,
prosecutors and judges from migrant worker transit areas were
trained together in 2008.

While efforts to increase passport integrity began, Indonesia's
passport services, like most other government services, remained the
object of widespread corruption. Indonesians are able to easily
obtain passports with false and multiple identities. Recruitment
agencies routinely falsified birth dates, including for children, in
order to apply for passports and migrant worker documents.

The GOI did not effectively monitor immigration and emigration
patterns for evidence of trafficking, with some limited exceptions.
On the whole, however, immigration officials and law enforcement
agencies did not have the equipment, capacity or tools to generate
useful information, or did not prioritize such information.

The Transnational Crime Center (TNCC),which includes trafficking as
one focus, was established in 2004 and has aggressively tackled
trafficking.

COORDINATION AND COMMUNICATION MECHANISMS
--------------

In 2006, Indonesia signed the ASEAN Declaration on the Protection
and Promotion of the Rights and of Migrant Workers, committing
itself to an extensive list of protections.

At the national level, the Women's Ministry served as the focal
point for GOI actions on TIP. The People's Welfare Coordinating
Ministry, which includes the Women's Ministry under its umbrella,
also played a key role in coordinating efforts across different
agencies. The Operational Action Plan to eliminate trafficking
created a Task Force led by the People's Welfare Coordinating
Minister and the Women's Minister, and included some 28 government
and law enforcement agencies, NGOs, and civil society groups (see
above). Many provinces and a number of districts operated task
forces for coordinating anti-trafficking efforts.

The GOI actively participated in multilateral and international
coordination efforts to combat trafficking under UN, ASEAN and
regional frameworks.

The GOI has given responsibility for developing anti-trafficking
programs to the National Anti-Trafficking Task Force, created by the
National Action Plan, and led by the People's Welfare Coordinating
Minister and the Women's Minister, which includes other government
and law enforcement agencies, NGOs, and civil society groups.
Responsibility for provincial and district-level programs varies
from location to location. A growing number of provinces and
districts (26 in total) have their own task forces or committees.

-------------- --------------
III. INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION OF TRAFFICKERS
-------------- --------------



Law Enforcement
--------------

Police and prosecutors began using the new anti-trafficking law soon
after it passed, not waiting for implementing regulations; however,
other laws were still mostly used in 2007 pending widespread
implementation of the new law. These laws included the Penal Code,
Child Protection Act, the Manpower Placement Act and the Manpower
Act. Police routinely use the new law but prosecutors and judges
are using it sporadically, even when cases are brought forward by
police under the new law.

Arrests increased for the third year in a row, from 252 to 291, up
15 percent over 2007. However, other law enforcement data decreased
following a sharp increase in 2007. Prosecutions dropped 32 percent

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from 109 to 74. Convictions 15 percent from 46 to 39. The average
sentence in these cases was 43 months, a slight drop from 45 months
in 2007. This data came mostly from the national police (INP) and
the Attorney General's Office, with some cases reported by reliable
NGOs. All data was based on cases linked directly to trafficking.

The 21-man national police anti-trafficking task force has worked
with local police, Ministry of Manpower, the Migrant Workers
Protection Agency, Immigration, Foreign Affairs and NGOs to shut
down several large trafficking syndicates using Indonesia as a
transit point and rescue hundreds of victims, mostly children,
according to a February INP report, interviews with police and media
reports. "Operation Flower" was conducted in 2008 across 11
provinces, targeting trafficked girls and women, primarily in sexual
exploitation. In November 2008, this operation shut down large
operations in several parts of Indonesia, resulting in arrests of
dozens of pimps and rescuing hundreds of victims. The West
Kalimantan Regional Police reported that the Flower Operation
resulted uncovering 17 trafficking cases and the arrest of 24
suspects. They also rescued 24 underaged girls. One of the
suspects, Chong Kunm Seng alias Kam Seng, is part of an organized
network that involved both Indonesian and Malaysians. He had sold
104 victims into prostitution in Malaysia.

In December 2008, this same operation rescued 38 sex workers at a
five star hotel in Jakarta, arresting two traffickers. Also in
December 2008, police in the East Java handled 34 trafficking and
smuggling cases and rescuing 109 victims. Thirty two suspects are
being charged under the 2007 anti-trafficking law while the other 12
suspects were charged under the migrant protection law.

In January 2009, the West Nusa Tenggara Police uncovered 30 human
trafficking cases, rescuing 307 victims headed to the Middle East
and Malaysia. All the victims' documents were fake, falsifying the
ages of the victims aged 17-19 years.

Internationally, police stopped syndicated trafficking from Sri
Lanka and Afghanistan with a destination of Australia in several
large operations.

In 2008, police had set up 305 women's help desks (RPK) to protect
women and child victims of violence, including trafficking, and also
to aid in investigations of these crimes, an increase of 25 from

2006. INP also had set up Integrated Service Centers in 41
locations in 2008 where specially trained anti-trafficking police
work with doctors and social service workers at police hospitals to
provide special treatment for victims. Complying with the 2007
anti-trafficking law's requirement to set up special interview rooms
for trafficking victims, police in major cities across Indonesia
provided these rooms, complete with video cameras to record
testimony for victims who do not want to appear in courtand special
materials to help with interviewing hildren.

To aid in trafficking investigations, olice have liaison officer"s
in Indonesian embasses in Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Australia,
Philippnes and Thailand. These police liaison officers conributed
to growing law enforcement cooperation, articularly with Malaysia.


EXISTING ANTI-TIP LWS
-------------- (-

On March 20, 2007, the Indonesian national legislature passed Law
No. 21 of 2007 on the Eradication of the Criminal Act of Trafficking
in Persons. On April 19, the law was enacted through the
President's signature. The law defines trafficking, establishes
harsh punishments, provides protections for victims and witnesses,
provides services and restitution to victims, and calls for actions
to address trafficking. In 2007 and 2008, GOI passed all three
implementing regulations under the law:

National Police Decree No. 10 of 2007, was enacted on July 6, 2007
to provide the organizational structure and procedures for a special
unit providing services to women and children.

Government of Indonesia Regulation No. 9 of 2008 on Procedures and
Mechanisms for Integrated Service Centers regarding Witnesses and/or
Victims of Trafficking in Persons. The regulation requires the
establishment of "integrated service centers" in every district and
municipality to provide services for trafficked persons and
witnesses. It takes a holistic approach to the services needed by
trafficked persons and witnesses, providing integrated service

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centers will promote the return and social integration of a victim
or witness in the form of medical rehabilitation, social
rehabilitation and legal assistance. The regulation states that
funding for the centers will come from both local and national
governments bit does not specify sources of funding or allocation of
funding.

A third regulation, to establish counter-trafficking task forces at
the national, provincial and district/municipal levels was
promulgated on November 6, 2008. The national task force formed
under the new law met for the first time in early 2009. The
national task force is not only to develop anti TIP program but also
includes coordination, monitoring and evaluation of the TIP program.
The national task force reports directly to the President.

OTHER LAWS
--------------

The National Plan of Action encourages provincial and local
governments to their own anti-trafficking regulations and a number
have done so. Notable are strong anti-trafficking or women and child
protection laws which reflect local reactions to the trafficking
problem and are being used vigorously.

In addition to many local laws passed in previous years, local laws
passed in 2008 include:

--West Java Provincial Regulation No. 3/2008 on Prevention and
Counter Trafficking

--West Nusa Tenggara Provincial Regulation No. 10/2008 on Prevention
and Counter Trafficking.

--East Nusa Tenggara Provincial Regulation No. 14/2008 on the
Prevention and Handling of Victims Trafficking in Persons.

In 2004, the DPR passed Law 39/2004 on the protection of migrant
workers abroad. The law provides greater regulation of the migrant
worker recruiting and placement process. It establishes jail
sentences of 2 to 15 years for unlicensed labor recruitment
agencies.

Indonesia has also ratified almost all major conventions relating to
trafficking. In addition to those referred to above, Indonesia has
ratified ILO Convention 29 on Forced Labor, the UN Convention on the
Elimination of Discrimination against Women, and has signed the
optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on
the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography.
Indonesia has also signed the UN Convention against Transnational
Organized Crime and its supplemental Protocol to Prevent, Suppress
and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children.

PENALTIES FOR RAPE OR FORCIBLE SEXUAL ASSAULT
--------------

The Criminal Code, Article 285, stipulates a maximum of 12 years
imprisonment for rape committed outside of marriage. Other generally
less severe criminal sanctions apply for sexual intercourse with a
minor, forcing a person to commit an act of sexual abuse of a minor,
facilitating minors to perform acts of obscenity, and other related
offenses. The 12-year maximum jail sentence for rape exceeds the
6-year maximum for trafficking under the Criminal Code, but is
similar to the 15-year maximum penalty for trafficking of children
under the Child Protection Act.

PROSTITUTION
--------------

As a matter of national law, Indonesia has not legalized
prostitution. Indonesia's Penal Code does not explicitly mention
prostitution, but the Code's Chapter 14 refers to "crimes against
decency/morality," which many within national and local governments
interpret to apply to prostitution. Central government officials
contacted by the Embassy agreed in their interpretation that the
Penal Code renders prostitution illegal. The prostitution of
children is clearly illegal under the Penal Code and the 2002 Child
Protection Act.

The Penal Code can be used to prosecute the acts of pimps, brothel
owners and enforcers on the basis of various crimes, including:
using violence or threats of violence to force persons to conduct
indecent acts (Article 289, with a maximum penalty of nine years in

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jail); facilitating indecent acts (Article 296, with a possible jail
term of 16 months); conducing/facilitating public indecency (Article
281); and making profits from the indecent acts of a woman (Article
506, with a possible one-year jail sentence). In practice,
authorities rarely pursued such charges against those involved in
prostitution.

Clients of child prostitutes can be charged under the Penal Code and
the Child Protection Act. In theory, married persons who are
clients of prostitutes can be charged for engaging in sexual
relations outside of marriage (Penal Code Article 284). In general,
police did not arrest and pursue charges against clients of
prostitutes.

While contrary to societal and religious norms in Indonesia, the
practice of prostitution is widespread and largely tolerated in many
areas of the country, particularly when it is not a matter of public
display. Although contrary to national interpretations that the
Penal Code prohibits prostitution, authorities in some localities
have formally or informally regulated prostitution in response to
community pressure. In some areas, including certain locations in
Papua, brothel owners registered prostitutes with the police with a
view to demonstrating that the prostitutes are not coerced or
underage.

Some local governments gained important tax revenues from otherwise
legal entertainment businesses, such as karaoke bars, that also
offer prostitution. Individual police and other officials also
gained illegal income as a result of prostitution. These factors
encouraged the tendency to tolerate prostitution, according to
observers.

In East Java, the province's Child Protection Commission, police,
city authorities, and NGO representatives in May 2005 launched a
network to monitor and prevent trafficking of children into
prostitution. The network monitors brothels and reports to the
social services office and police if a brothel employs a child
prostitute. In 2007, this resulted in a decrease of child
prostitutes from 68 to 8, according to an ILO survey.

INVESTIGATIVE TECHNIQUES
--------------

In some instances, the police, particularly those who had received
anti-trafficking training, used active investigation techniques to
develop trafficking cases. The police used undercover operations to
some extent. In the past, police occasionally employed electronic
surveillance using technical expertise developed for
counter-terrorism. Information collected through electronic
surveillance is not admissible in Indonesian courts except in cases
of terrorism. The cooperation of victims and witnesses was
important to police and prosecutors in making cases against
traffickers. According to a number of the police, GOI officials and
NGOs, victims frequently avoided testifying because of the prolonged
nature of court cases, their desire to return to their home areas
and lack of financial assistance to maintain themselves. This
complicated prosecution efforts. In some cases, police did not
detain suspects, who then subsequently disappeared and did not
present themselves in court.

SPECIALIZED TRAINING
--------------

Training of law enforcement officials by USG and international NGOs
greatly increased this year, with strong cooperation by Indonesian
officials. Over a thousand police, prosecutors and judges were
trained on trafficking in 2008.

Since October 2007, RSO has coordinated with the INP to target
criminal syndicates that specialize in the production and sale of
counterfeit documents to facilitate human smuggling and/or
trafficking to the United States. RSO is coordinating with
Diplomatic Security Service's (DSS) Visa Fraud Branch, the Federal
Bureau of Investigation and the Department of State's Human
Smuggling and Trafficking Center to investigate these syndicates.

In coordination with the Jakarta Consular Section's Fraud Prevention
Unit, RSO has identified criminal organizations in Jakarta involved
in the production and distribution of counterfeit documents and/or
the smuggling/trafficking of persons from Indonesia to the United
States and other countries. DSS has provided RSO Jakarta with funds
to provide human smuggling/ trafficking training to the INP. RSO,

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in conjunction with Department of Justice's International Criminal
Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP),provided five
human smuggling and trafficking training courses to the INP in 2008.
In response, INP Jakarta set up a local anti-trafficking unit.

In addition, a Department of Justice Intermittent Legal Advisor
(ILA),from Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development Assistance
and Training (OPDAT) provided joint training to officials from
Ministry of Manpower and the Overseas Manpower Protection Agency,
along with judges, prosecutors and NGOs in 2008 in Bogor, West Java,
the first such joint training. Similar training was repeated in
trafficking hotspots of Manado and Pontianak, the first time
anti-trafficking training was given in those locations. The same
course also took place in Bali.

In addition, IOM trained police, prosecutors, immigration official
and judges in a series of national workshops.

COOPERATION WITH OTHER GOVERNMENTS
--------------

The GOI cooperated with other governments, particularly Malaysia, in
the investigation and prosecution of trafficking cases during 2008.
Indonesian and Malaysian law enforcement officers worked together to
stop trafficking operations.

In the past, Indonesia and Australia cooperated in the
investigations of Australian pedophiles victimizing children in
Bali, and syndicates trafficking women to Australia. In February
2009, police deported Australian and Swiss nationals for pedophile
cases. Both will face charges in their home countries.

EXTRADITION
--------------

Indonesia maintains extradition treaties with only five countries or
territories, but very seldom utilizes this mechanism to seek
extradition of its citizens, preferring less formal options such as
rendering and deportation. Indonesia does not have a history of
extraditing or rendering its own citizens to other countries.

Indonesia did not extradite any traffickers during this reporting
period and there were no reports of such requests from other
countries.

Indonesian police and officials have cooperated with foreign
governments, including the U.S. and Australia, in the apprehension
and repatriation of foreign sex offenders.

GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT IN OR TOLERANCE OF TRAFFICKING
-------------- --------------

Some government officials and individual members of the security
forces facilitated, tolerated, or were involved in trafficking. The
most common example of such complicity was in the production of
national identity cards. In local communities, low-level officials
certified false information to produce national identity cards and
family data cards for children to allow them to work as adults.
Based on the identity cards, traffickers processed passports and
work visas for children who otherwise would not be able to obtain
such documents. With less than 30 percent of all births registered
in the country, and such registrations also subject to
falsification, authorities often had little legal basis to challenge
documents containing false information.

Some officials in local Manpower offices reportedly licensed and
tolerated migrant worker recruiting agencies despite the officials'
knowledge of the agencies' involvement in trafficking. In return for
bribes, some Immigration officials turned a blind eye to potential
trafficking victims, failing to screen or act with due diligence in
processing passports and immigration control. Local governments'
loose regulation of prostitution zones in larger cities also raised
concerns about local officials' involvement and tolerance of
trafficking.

Individual members of the police and military were associated with
brothels and prostitution fronts, most frequently through the
collection of protection money, which was a widespread practice.
Sometimes off-duty security force members worked as security
personnel at brothels. Security force members also involved
themselves in prostitution as brothel owners or through other
illicit business interests, according to NGOs and other reports.

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Examples include allegations of Indonesian security forces
complicity in trafficking to the "Dolly prostitution complex in
Surabaya, one of Southeast Asia's largest brothel areas, and
trafficking to Papua.

STEPS TO END OFFICIALS' INVOLVEMENT IN TRAFFICKING
-------------- --------------

The GOI has begun to seriously take action against officials
involved in trafficking, including corruption charges,
administrative sanctions, dismissals and transfers. The impact of
these few but unprecedented actions is beginning to change the
culture of impunity. Unfortunately, this type of action is not being
applied to military officials involved in trafficking, particularly
of women and girls trapped in prostitution.

There were no GOI reports of the security forces prosecuting or
disciplining their own members for involvement in prostitution or
other activities related to trafficking.

FOREIGN PEDOPHILES PROSECUTED, DEPORTED
--------------

On February 26, 2009, the Singaraja District Court in Bali sentenced
Australian pedophile Philip Robert Grandfield to eight years in jail
after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting five boys, aged 16
and 17, while he was living in Buleleng, North Bali in 2008.

Police say pedophile cases are particularly difficult to prosecute
since affected boys and girls and their families are reluctant to
file reports against the perpetrators.

RATIFICATION OF INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS
--------------

Indonesia has signed and in most cases ratified international
instruments related to the worst forms of child labor and the
trafficking of women and children:

-- On February 3, 2009, The House of Representatives ratified a
United Nations protocol against human trafficking which aims to stop
and punish human traffickers, particularly those trafficking women
and children, and is part of the UN Convention Against Transnational
Organized Crime. Once enacted, the protocol will allow law
enforcers to charge those responsible for trafficking people with
the maximum possible sentence in a move to crack down on trafficking
syndicates.

-- On February 17, 2009, the House of Representatives ratified a
United Nations protocol against smuggling of migrants. Once
enacted, the protocol will enable the authorities to crack down
people smuggling syndicates.

-- The GOI signed ILO Convention 182 concerning the elimination of
the worst forms of child labor and ratified this with Law No. 1 of
2000 on March 8, 2000.

-- Indonesia ratified ILO Convention 29 on Forced Labor in 1950.
The GOI ratified ILO Convention 105 on the Abolition of Forced Labor
in 1999.

-- Indonesia signed the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the
Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and
Child Pornography, and ratified this in September 2001.

-- Indonesia signed in December 2000 the UN Convention Against
Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocol to Prevent, Suppress
and Punish Trafficking in Persons. The GOI has not yet ratified the
Convention and Protocol.

-- On September 25, 2003, Indonesia signed the Convention for the
Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and the Exploitation of the
Prostitution of Others, 1950, and the Convention's Final Protocol.
Indonesia has not yet ratified these instruments.

--------------
IV. PROTECTION AND ASSISTANCE TO VICTIMS
--------------

GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE TO VICTIMS
--------------


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National and local level assistance efforts continued or increased
over the past year, although they remained small in comparison with
the scope of the problem. The GOI and police operated 41
"integrated service centers," providing health services to TIP and
other victims of violence. Four of these are full medical recovery
centers specifically for trafficking victims. The GOI pays for
about a third of the cost of treating victims by offering intensive
care treatment for the cost of ordinary care funded by IOM. These
trafficking victim recovery centers treated thousands of patients
since opening in 2005. The integrated service centers in Jakarta,
Surabaya, Pontianak and Makassar provide support services such as
temporary shelter, medical, psychological, and legal assistance.

The Regional Offices of Women Empowerment also operate the
Integrated Service Center for Empowering Women and Children (PTP),
centers for women and children. These provide medical, economic,
and legal services to for victims of trafficking and violence. PTPs
have been established in 15 provinces and 93
regencies/municipalities. Between January and November 2008 these
centers helped 1,115 patients.

GOI also has established: 22 Residential Psychiatric Treatment
Centers for Children; nine Safe Houses for the Protection of
Children (RSPA),victim of trafficking unit at Karya Wanita Social
Institution in Jakarta; children protection hotlines in five
provinces and a national hotline service.

The government conducted anti-trafficking outreach education in 33
provinces and 37 regencies/ municipalities in 2008. An increasing
number of NGOs and community based organizations have set up Women's
Crisis Centers, Drop in Centers or Shelters. Local governments
worked together with NGOs and civil society groups to establish and
operate shelters for TIP victims, in key transit points such as
Batam, Riau Islands and in Entikong on the West Kalimantan border
with Malaysia. Local governments also used social services offices
and police women's desks as temporary shelters.

The Foreign Ministry operated shelters for trafficking victims and
migrant workers at its embassies and consulates in several
countries, including Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Singapore.
Over the course of 2008, these shelters housed thousands of
Indonesian citizens, including trafficking victims. Indonesian
diplomatic missions, in coordination with other GOI agencies,
assisted with repatriation of trafficking victims.

The Social Affairs Ministry Directorate of Social Assistance for
Victims of Violence and Migrant Workers assisted victims returning
from overseas since domestic cases normally fall under the
responsibility of local governments. In 2008, the Ministry provided
some repatriation assistance to tens of thousands of migrant
workers, the vast majority of whom returned from Malaysia. This
included transportation, basic medical care, and food for some of
these returnees. The Directorate provided some training to
provincial Social Affairs offices. The Ministry also operated
women's rehabilitation centers and assisted with crisis centers.

GOI SUPPORT FOR NGO SERVICES TO VICTIMS
--------------

The GOI provided some funding to domestic NGOs and civil society
groups that supported services for TIP victims, usually as part of a
larger program rather than one focused exclusively on trafficking.
At the national level, for example, the People's Welfare
Coordinating Ministry and the Social Affairs Ministry provided food
assistance to social centers and safe houses nationwide. Local
governments across Indonesia funded NGOs to provide services to some
victims, including shelters, medical exams and training.

SCREENING AND REFERRAL OF VICTIMS
--------------

In Jakarta, a screening system is in place at the Tanjung Priok
seaport to refer cases of abused migrant workers and trafficking
victims to the city's police hospital. NGOs active in migrant
worker advocacy also identify and refer returned migrant workers who
need medical attention. An NGO screening process was also in
practice in Surabaya. However, at Jakarta international airport's
Terminal Four, screening by officials is cursory and most
trafficking victims appear to slip through without being helped,
according to USG and NGO observations. In a recent visit, a G/TIP
official interviewed a group of women trafficked from Saudi Arabia
who told us they had been abused and exploited, a fact which

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Terminal Four personnel failed to catch.

Women's help desks at provincial and district level police offices
typically have formal or informal arrangements in place with local
NGO's to provide short-term shelter and a modicum of care for
trafficking victims. In general, long-term care does not appear to
be available. A current U.S.-funded project, implemented by IOM,
has begun to develop models of better and longer-term care for
trafficking victims.

RESPECT FOR THE RIGHTS OF VICTIMS
--------------

The GOI's written policy, found in its annual trafficking report, is
that, "from a legal perspective, the Government treats persons who
are trafficked not as criminals, but as victims who need help and
protection." The People's Welfare Coordinating Ministry, the
Women's Ministry, and training conducted by international NGOs and
DOJ/ICITAP, reinforced this policy during the year in public
settings and trainings of police and other officials. Police who
received ICITAP training demonstrated greater awareness of and
respect for TIP victims.

Local government and police practice varied, particularly in the
lower ranks of law enforcement agencies. Local governments,
exercising greater authority under the nation's decentralization
program, sometimes enacted regulations that tend to treat trafficked
prostitutes as criminals, contrary to national policy. In many
instances, GOI officials and police actively protected and assisted
victims. In other cases, police officers treated victims,
particularly trafficked prostitutes, as criminals, subjected them to
detention, and took advantage of their vulnerability to demand
bribes and sexual services. The media and lower level officials,
including police, frequently failed to protect victims' identities
and commonly provided victims' names to the public.

The GOI's policy is not to detain or imprison trafficking victims.
Police implementation of this policy varies in practice. Not all
local government laws comply with this policy. Local police often
arrested prostitutes, presumably including trafficking victims, who
operated outside recognized prostitution zones on charges of
violating public order. Police raids on prostitute areas commonly
resulted in the arrest of prostitutes, rather than users or pimps.
On occasion, the police detained victims, sometimes to gain their
testimony or in the belief they were protecting the victims from
traffickers. In other cases, police detained victims in order to
extract bribes.

There was a growing understanding of the need to protect Indonesian
victims of trafficking. This included case of foreign prostitutes
trafficked to Indonesia. They were screened for trafficking and the
GOI worked with the governments of the countries of origin for the
humane repatriation of victims.


ENCOURAGING VICTIMS TO ASSIST INVESTIGATIONS/ PROSECUTIONS
-------------- --------------

The GOI encourages victims to assist in the investigation and
prosecution of traffickers. The GOI reported that victims
frequently were reluctant or refused to provide testimony out of
shame and fear of retribution against themselves and their
families.

There have been reports of police officers who refused to receive
complaints from trafficking victims, but insisted instead that
victims and traffickers reach an informal settlement (for example,
payment of debts in return for a prostitute's release from a
brothel).

PROTECTIONS FOR VICTIMS AND WITNESSES
--------------

The functions of the women's help desks at provincial and district
level police stations include protection of women and children
during the police investigation process of crimes such as
trafficking. Some of the desks functioned reasonably well, while
others did not function adequately. With the new anti-trafficking
law and the Witness Protection law, police routinely offer witnesses
special protection such as giving testimony via videotape. All
women's desks set up special victim interview rooms in 2008, in some
cases including a video camera to film testimony.

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TRAINING FOR OFFICIALS TO RECOGNIZE/ASSIST VICTIMS
-------------- --------------

The National Action Plan calls for training of government officials
in recognizing trafficking and assisting victims, to be carried out
in the 2003-2007 timeframe. The GOI conducted such training on an
ad hoc basis through various seminars, workshops and government
meetings. INP and Immigration both conducted anti-trafficking
training, including victim recognition, over the past year.

NGOs and international organizations have assisted in the training
of Indonesian officials. IOM and ICMC have worked with Indonesian
diplomatic offices in Malaysia to improve their screening procedures
for potential trafficking victims.

ASSISTANCE TO REPATRIATED NATIONALS
--------------

The GOI, both at the national and locals levels, provides some
measure of assistance, including limited medical aid, shelter, and
financial help, to its repatriated nationals who were trafficking
victims. In general, the government at various levels provided more
attention and assistance to repatriated victims compared with
victims of internal trafficking. In 2008, the GOI greatly improved
its level of care for victims held at Embassy shelters overseas.
The GOI now pays the cost of transporting victims from Malaysia to
Indonesia.

NGO'S WORKING WITH TRAFFICKING VICTIMS
--------------

Some of the more prominent NGOs are Solidaritas Perempuan (Jakarta),
LBH-Apik (Jakarta and West Kalimantan),Yayasan
Mitra Kesehatan dan Kemanusiaan or YMKK (Batam),Rifka Anisa
(Yogyakarta),Asa Puan (West Kalimantan) and LADA (Lampung). Some
labor unions also provided services to trafficking victims. The
activities of these groups related to TIP include: legal assistance,
prevention and education programs, medical services, clinics for
children, research and advocacy, counseling, reproductive health,
HIV/AIDS prevention, and shelters. More NGOs have emerged over the
past several years, including Migrant Care, currently a leading
advocacy body for migrant worker rights and anti-trafficking.

The GOI continued strong cooperation with NGOs over the past year in
the area of assistance to trafficking victims. In some cases
government offices relied heavily on NGO inputs and advice. GOI
offices provided licenses to organizations and access to trafficking
victims, included NGOs on national and local action committees, and
interceded with law enforcement agencies in some cases to permit
NGOs to carry out their activities. NGOs frequently interacted with
the police, though mutual suspicions limited the interaction in some
areas.

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V. HEROES
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Elly Anita is a migrant worker who escaped enslavement in Kurdistan,
Iraq through her own willpower in 1997. After being rescued, she
went to work for an Indonesian NGO, Migrant Care, to help rescue
other trafficked Indonesians in the Middle East. Her efforts
resulted in a half dozen more women being rescued from trafficking
in Iraq.

In 2006, Elly was offered a job as a secretary at a private company
in Dubai. After suffering abuse from her employer and refusing to
take a job as a domestic servant, she was then offered a job in
"Italy" which she accepted. She ended up in Kurdistan, Iraq
instead. In Iraq, she again refused to take a job as a domestic
servant since she was a trained secretary. The employment agent, a
powerful person in the community, put a gun to her head, beat her,
starved her and kept her confined to the employment agency.

Near death, she still refused to be forced into a job as a maid.
When the employment agency's office was empty, she used the
company's computer to communicate by internet with other Indonesian
migrant workers in the region, who directed her to the Indonesian
Embassy in Amman and Indonesia's Migrant Care. From there, GOI
intervention and assistance by IOM eventually got her out Kurdistan
at great risk. Since returning to Indonesia, she has worked for
Migrant Care as a vocal voice against trafficking. She continues to

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fight for liberty of fellow workers, including those still trapped
in Iraq.

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VI. BEST PRACTICES
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North Sulawesi Local Task Forces
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Beginning with a modest level of support from the International
Catholic Migration Commission, community task forces in impoverished
North Sulawesi have had a tremendous effect in fighting trafficking
in North Sulawesi. In 2004, the North Sulawesi provincial
government passed an Anti-Trafficking Law and developed a Provincial
Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking (CTTF). This encouraged
significant efforts by the government and NGOs to combat trafficking
in the province. However, the CTTF's efforts were handicapped by the
lack of understanding about trafficking in the law enforcers.
Following an ICMC workshop in Manado, the province began training
task forces at the district level. The Women's Empowerment and the
Manpower Offices in the districts convened coordination meetings,
involving other government departments and NGOs, to discuss the
creation of CTTFs.

One district where CTTFs had great success was the Minahasa Induk
District, where there was no policy or plan of action to combat
trafficking in spite of it being a high sending area. However, the
community was very concerned about its girls being trafficked and
the local task force mobilized itself. By 2008, dozens of local
agencies and NGOs were working together to fight trafficking.
Assisted by a small grant for ICMC to the Maupasan Minahasa
Foundation, the community loaned money to vulnerable families to
start businesses, informed farmers about trafficking, and assisted
in law enforcement.

As a result, the loose confederation of small NGOs under the
umbrella of this foundation drove traffickers away from their
villages. While Minahasa girls are still targeted in some of the
more remote villages which are difficult to reach, this community
network has succeeded in protecting hundreds of their girls from
sexual exploitation.

This example has further encouraged the authorities of two other
neighboring districts, Minahasa Selatan and Minahasa Tenggara, to
take counter-trafficking measures and consider the formation of
CTTFs.

In the provincial capital of Manado, the local task force with
representatives from all government agencies and NGOs also meets
regularly. As a result of strong community cooperation with law
enforcement, traffickers largely avoid Manado as a transit point

Still, many ethnic Minahasa girls and young women from the province
are trafficked domestically and internationally, with large numbers
sent to rich mining areas of Papua. Working with families and a
local NGO, TIP police in Manado have traveled to Papua to bring back
victims from bars. Police maintain a book with photos and known
addresses of every victim and continue efforts to rescue each and
every one.

Police are assisted by a dynamic Manado NGO, the Information Center
for Women and Children. This small NGO works closely with police
and takes a very active role in protecting, rescuing and sheltering
victims from throughout North Sulawesi. It has distributed thousands
of posters and leaflets to vulnerable communities. PIPPA targets
significant cases and gathers evidence to share with police. Its
case workers travel to Papua to rescue girls. It provides a shelter
with medical and psychological counseling.

As a result of all these efforts, one of Indonesia's most vulnerable
communities for trafficking of girls has taken a stand, because the
people want to protect their children.

HUME