Perspective of Community Knowledge and Attitude about Human Trafficking
- DOI
- 10.2991/acec-18.2018.54How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- community knowledge; human trafficking
- Abstract
Indonesia is in the first position with the largest number of human trafficking places in the world. In December 2014, number of human trafficking victims are 6.651 people with 92.46% are children and women, and 82% are women who have worked at own country and overseas for labor exploitation, while 18% are men who mostly exploit while working as ship crew to fishing or other laborers. Therefore, this research is important to prevent human trafficking. This research used survey method and obtained empirical data about community’s knowledge and attitude about human trafficking case in East Nusa Tenggara, how the difference of knowledge and attitude of community about human trafficking case between men and women and difference of public attitudes about human trafficking among various classification community. The number of samples of the study were 227 respondents who were the head of the family or family members, taken by multistage random sampling. Based on the result of the research, it was found that people's knowledge on human trafficking is still in various categories high, medium and low. Furthermore, when viewed from the gender, the knowledge of man is higher than the woman, on the contrary to the attitude towards the Crime of Trafficking, the woman's attitude is more positive than the man. Thus there needs to be policies and programs integrated in achieving sustainable development goal.
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Nadiroh Nadiroh AU - Uswatun Hasanah AU - Shahibah Yuliani PY - 2018/11 DA - 2018/11 TI - Perspective of Community Knowledge and Attitude about Human Trafficking BT - Proceedings of the Annual Civic Education Conference (ACEC 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 225 EP - 228 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/acec-18.2018.54 DO - 10.2991/acec-18.2018.54 ID - Nadiroh2018/11 ER -