Improving the Response: Preventing Human Trafficking by Understanding Traffickers
摘要
This chapter starts by examining global and Indonesian efforts to address human trafficking. Although various prevention strategies have been implemented to reduce trafficking, there remains a significant gap in measures aimed at preventing individuals from becoming traffickers in the first place. To fill this gap, the chapter offers recommendations for preventing involvement in human trafficking in Indonesia. These suggestions are based on the study on characteristics, motivations, and other key factors of human trafficking in domestic labour and sex industry identified in earlier chapters. The recommendations are informed by policies and programmes from other fields (such as drug trafficking, terrorism, and conflict resolution), anti-trafficking prevention initiatives from other countries, economic development programmes, relevant literature on trafficking prevention, insights from the research interviews, and the author’s own ideas. Efforts to prevent individuals from engaging in human trafficking in Indonesia remain limited. Most initiatives, such as community campaigns and awareness-raising programmes, focus broadly on the risks of becoming involved in trafficking without addressing specific contexts. So far, prevention measures have not been tailored to the different types of trafficking, such as those involving domestic labour or the sex industry. This chapter however will make these distinctions and thus make more nuanced recommendations for action.