Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia

That situation makes people willing to do anything to support their family and easy deceived with fake promises from human trafficking trader. Migration from village to city, desire to get rich quickly and social recognition make people easily deceived with fake promises too. It’s not a new phenomenon that socio-culture impact the human trafficking.

 High corruption and weakness of law enforcement give an opportunity for human trafficking. Few officers in migration become a mafia of human trafficking, they get paid from trader to make a false migration passport for the victim or give an access for trader to entry their country without passing migration. Messy record of population growth measure gives a chance of human trafficking, government who doesn’t know their people will find it hard to find their people. 

The long process and light punishment for traders didn’t make any regret to trader of human trafficking. Victims who migrations with a fake document without any knowledge will feel scared to report it. They are afraid to involve in such a huge problem with the officer and can be considered to be deported. 

Sometimes, officer takes easy for human trafficking problem and the process of law become so long. It makes victims didn’t believe in law and continue their job under pressure. Lack of transparency in officers who solve human trafficking problem makes victims forced; the traders have a connection and take a chance with the system of law, so victims have a few opportunities to come out from human trafficking problems. 

Corruption makes law system becomes expensive; the ones who have money will win the court. Victims don’t have any money to hire an educative lawyer or prove that they are victims, the process become so long and absorb much money. That situation makes victims give up reporting human trafficking problem and gives an opportunity for traders to continue their sin.

• Recommendation

Government should make effective policies and empowerment for human trafficking by working together with all nations in Southeast Asia, so it will be easy to catch the criminal and give them a fair punishment. All nation in Southeast Asia works together to make some system and policy which mutually agreement and held together about how to treat victims and perpetrator, make a report post, and discuss about human trafficking problem between related countries. 

Effective policy and empowerment can be done by simplify the reports system for victims, so when the victims report, law process and empowerment can be done quick and justice. All nations in Southeast Asia should give a severe punishment to officer who help trader in human trafficking case and receive bribe from them. Migration officers should tighten their migration process; check all documents and their purposes when someone wants to go to another country or another city. Government should give a protection for victims and their report by give them a competitive lawyer to defend them and give a psychologist for recover their mental. 

Education for all nations in Southeast Asia need to be expanded, all people have to receive an education, either formal school or informal school. Government can make free education for their entire citizen; give soft and hard skill education for the poor; and job training for people in productive age that never got any education. 

School or social community can make a seminar for children and adult about how to refuse human trafficking, how to report a human trafficking case to the police, what is human trafficking and what form is it, and the other education about human trafficking problem.

 People who live in village that have a high rate of young marriage should get education about what their bear in marriage, give them an education about maturity of finance and mental, and persuade them to wait their marriage until their mature age.  People in Southeast Asia should be educated about divorcement, for example about  who’s got the disadvantages about their divorcement or what kind of responsibility that there bear by taking that risk. By education, the high rate of poverty and human trafficking can be reduced.

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