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Emmy Lucy Smith: It Takes Synergy to Fight Trafficking
The synergy between NGOs, the Police, and the Government to empower trafficking survivors is urgent to follow up the adoption of the Anti Human Trafficking Law (PTPPO). This statement from the Coordinator of the Indonesia against Child Trafficking (Indo ACTS) is confirmed by the participants to the “Cross Sector Synergy for the Eradication of Child Trafficking in Jakarta Area” workshop at the Mayor’s Office of North Jakarta, Thursday (1/1).
Indo ACTS is a network of 16 NGOs in 12 areas throughout 10 provinces. For Asian network, Indo ACTS is part of the Asia ACT for Southeast Asia level comprising seven countries, Vietnam, Laos, Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia and part of the larger international networks of Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Southeast Europe.
With such a vast network, Indonesia needs to hold cross sector and cross border cooperation on bilateral as well as multilateral bases to combat human trafficking. “Multi sector cooperation is absolutely necessary,” says Emmy.
Emmy adds that female children survivors have been subject to commercial sexual, prostitution, pornographic, and labor exploitations. They come from Sumatra (Lampung, Lahat, and Palembang), West Java, Central Java, East Java, and East Kalimantan destined to domestic and overseas markets.
One thing that we must also consider is that child trafficking is different from human trafficking. Adult trafficking must meet the three criteria called the process (recruitment, transportation, handover, and sheltering), the mean (persuasions, threats, or kidnappings), and purpose (exploited as beggars, exploited sexually, exploited as domestic helpers and human tissue trafficking, and so on). On the other hand, child trafficking does not need meet those criteria. Even when only two of those elements have been met, children can be considered trafficked.
In the meeting supported by Terre Des Hommes Netherlands and European Union participated by local and international non government organizations – among whom are Yayasan Putri Mandiri, Plan International, and IOM, and social elements such as the North Jakarta Sector Police, the Mental and Social Welfare Development, district employees, school education office, and North Jakarta AIDS Prevention Commission – it is clear that several non government organizations are very serious in supporting child and woman trafficking survivors. These supports are intended that commercial sex worker and street children survivors can be more creative to explore the personal skills and switch to better and meaningful professions, such as, factory workers or even creators of new employments. These supports will be backed up with religious and school educations they can enjoy during breaks.
Nur Azizah, an ex commercial sex worker now an active member of Yayasan Perempuan dan Anak, has a strong desire to help her colleagues quit their professions as commercial sex workers. “What I direly expect is the cooperation from the Manpower Office. While the issue is on trafficking, I am expecting a letter from the Manpower Office. It is how to help these children survivors, those working as commercial sex workers, switch professions. It is my dream to do that,” says she at the end of her sharing experiences.* (Gadis Ranty)


*Gadis Ranty is working as freelance journalist at Yayasan Jurnal Perempuan