1) 2013 Trafficking in Persons Report - Indonesia
United States Department of State, 2013 Trafficking in Persons Report - Indonesia, 19 June 2013, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/51c2f3b641.html [accessed 24 June 2013]
INDONESIA (Tier 2)
Indonesia is a major source country and to a much lesser extent a
destination and transit country for women, children, and men who are
subjected to sex trafficking and forced labor. Each of Indonesia's 33
provinces is a source and destination of trafficking, with the most
significant source areas being the provinces of West Java, Central Java,
East Java, West Nusa Tenggara, East Nusa Tenggara, and Banten. A
significant number of Indonesian migrant workers face conditions of
forced labor and debt bondage in Asia and the Middle East, particularly
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Taiwan, Singapore, Oman,
and Hong Kong. The government estimates that there are six million
Indonesians working abroad. Government officials reported there was an
overall reduction in the number of workers mistreated or found
vulnerable to trafficking as a result of targeted policies, such as a
moratorium on permits to work abroad for domestic workers to Saudi
Arabia, Kuwait, Syria, and Jordan. Malaysia and Saudi Arabia remain the
leading destinations for newly departing migrant workers registered with
the Indonesian government. Some 70 percent of all overseas Indonesian
workers are female. Indonesian trafficking victims are found in all of
the Gulf countries, Malaysia, Brunei, Taiwan, Chile, New Zealand, the
Philippines, Egypt, and the United States, among others.
The government and NGOs reported an increase in university and high
school students using social media to recruit and offer other students,
including those under the age of 18, for commercial sex. Women and girls
are trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation at mining operations
in Maluku, Papua, and Jambi Provinces. There were reports of an
increasing number of children exploited in prostitution in Batam
district of the Riau Islands province and children from North Sulawesi
province being exploited in prostitution in West Papua province. Some
women from Uzbekistan and Colombia are subjected to forced prostitution
in Indonesia.
2) Development in Indonesia must not threaten adequate housing for the poor – UN expert
UN News Service, Development in Indonesia must not threaten adequate housing for the poor – UN expert, 11 June 2013, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/51baf9d84.html [accessed 24 June 2013]
Indonesia must ensure that urban and economic development do not put
at risk adequate housing for poor citizens, a United Nations independent
expert stressed today, adding that the Government must strive for
inclusive progress.
"I am concerned that in some cases development is having a
retrogressive impact on the right to adequate housing," said the Special
Rapporteur on adequate housing, Raquel Rolnik, referring to reports of
evictions in rural and urban areas to make way for new public and
private developments.
Ms. Rolnik underlined that evictions are a gross violation of
international human rights law. "I call on the Government to ensure that
legislation regulating evictions is in line with Indonesia's
international human rights obligations and is duly enforced on State
agencies and third parties," she said at the end of her first visit to
the country.
"More can and must be done to prioritize the poorest and most
marginalized segments of society in Government housing policies and
programmes."
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- United States Department of State,
2013 Trafficking in Persons Report - Indonesia, 19 June 2013.
Online. UNHCR Refworld, available at:
http://www.refworld.org/docid/
51c2f3b641.html - UN News Service,
Development in Indonesia must not threaten adequate housing for the poor – UN expert, 11 June 2013.
Online. UNHCR Refworld, available at:
http://www.refworld.org/docid/
51baf9d84.html - UN Human Rights Council,
Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or
arbitrary executions, Addendum : Observations on communications
transmitted to Governments and replies received, 27 May 2013.
Online. UNHCR Refworld, available at:
http://www.refworld.org/docid/
51b9947d4.html - International Trade Union Confederation,
2013 Annual Survey of Violations of Trade Union Rights - Indonesia, 6 June 2013.
Online. UNHCR Refworld, available at:
http://www.refworld.org/docid/
51b8516d3f1.html - International Crisis Group (ICG),
Indonesia: Tensions Over Aceh's Flag, 7 May 2013.
Online. UNHCR Refworld, available at:
http://www.refworld.org/docid/
51b82db74.html
