The Effectiveness of a Task Force for Preventing Sexual Exploitation: Evidence from Human Trafficking (Women and Children) in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211112.057How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Policy; Task force; Sexual exploitation; Human Trafficking; East Nusa Tenggara
- Abstract
The phenomenon of human trafficking particularly are (women and children) in Indonesia always concern to raise a serious response by the government. One factor causing human trafficking is the lack of economic income, which is inversely proportional to the skills of the community. Based on the International Organization for Migration (IOM) data from 2017, human trafficking involved 970 girls and 5907 women. The Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection in 2019 identified 70% of victims of trafficking as women and children. East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) Province is the region with the highest level of human trafficking in Indonesia. The Task Force for Preventing Sexual Exploitation is the government’s effort to stop this crime. Furthermore, the government needs to increase responsiveness through policies to prevent human trafficking. The purpose of this article is to analyze how effective the task force is in preventing sexual exploitation in human trafficking in NTT. This research used qualitative descriptive. Data were collected from the literature and to investigate the phenomena in complex ways through validation and analysis. The results of this study found 1) human trafficking can practically exploit human sexuality; 2) the government is still unresponsive in preventing human trafficking; 3) the need for ongoing monitoring and evaluation to the public and government in implementing policies. The government needs to review the Criminal Act of Trafficking in Persons to the prevention policies of parts of government and non-government agencies, accompanied by strict supervision by law enforcement officials.
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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
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- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
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TY - CONF AU - Ike Dwi Ambarwati AU - Muhammad Kamil AU - Ali Roziqin PY - 2021 DA - 2021/11/23 TI - The Effectiveness of a Task Force for Preventing Sexual Exploitation: Evidence from Human Trafficking (Women and Children) in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Law and Human Rights 2021 (ICLHR 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 443 EP - 450 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211112.057 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211112.057 ID - Ambarwati2021 ER -