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More efforts are required to strengthen early detection and preventive measures to fight human trafficking faced by Indonesians in their attempts to find work abroad, a senior official has said
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ore efforts are required to strengthen early detection and preventive measures to fight human trafficking faced by Indonesians in their attempts to find work abroad, a senior official has said.
'The number of human trafficking cases has continued to increase and the trend is getting more complex and varied,' Tatang Budie Utama Razak, director of legal aid and protection for Indonesian nationals overseas at the Foreign Ministry, told journalists on Sunday.
He was speaking ahead of a training course on victim identification for consular officers and staff, jointly held by the ministry and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB).
Fifty-two participants, comprising consular officials and staff members from 27 Indonesian representative offices in a number of countries, will participate in the training, which is to run from Monday to Friday.
'With the training, we hope that officials and staff members in Indonesian representative offices will more comprehensively understand human trafficking as well as its related aspects, so they can create a more effective strategy and approach to human trafficking cases involving Indonesians abroad,' said Tatang.
According to data from the 2012 UNODC global report, the number of Indonesian citizens who fell victim to human trafficking and received assistance from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reached 1,647 during 2008-2010.
Meanwhile, since January to April, the Foreign Ministry recorded 109 human trafficking cases handled by Indonesian representative offices in several countries.
Tatang said the government's policy to temporarily halt the dispatch of Indonesian workers to several countries had led human trafficking cases to increase. The policy was regarded by certain groups as an opportunity to send Indonesian workers abroad illegally.
Meanwhile, Indonesian Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates Salman Al-Farisi said apart from an early detection capacity, a more balanced understanding of the legal perspective on worker recruitment and placement among countries also needed to be created to better handle human trafficking cases. (dhi/ebf)
