Priyadi Santosa, the Women Workers Rights and Human Trafficking Assistant Deputy at the Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection Ministry, has called for village officials to intensify their dissemination of information on human trafficking. This understanding is critical, particularly with high urbanization and inadequate knowledge among those arriving, which leaves them vulnerable to human trafficking. Santosa emphasized that the primary factors that cause human trafficking include movement from place to place to improve personal circumstances, a consumptive lifestyle, child marriage, gender discrimination, and issues. Meanwhile, the factors that drive them are poverty, unemployment, low levels of education, a lack of social protection from families and society, and school dropouts. Indicators of human trafficking involve not receiving wages, incapability of managing received wages, debt traps, and restrictions or deprivation of freedom of movement. Victims are not allowed to stop working, they are isolated or restricted from contacting others, and they are held captive or not given health services, adequate food, and other necessities. Human trafficking also involves threats to victims’ families or children, threat of violence, signs of physical violence, being obligated to work in appalling conditions and/or having to work for extended periods of time. Furthermore, victims may be unable to pay for or manage travel, visa, and passport on their own, and they do not have personal identification letters or travel documents. Finally, victims may use fake passports or identities provided by a third party and may face exploitation through prostitution. By disseminating information on human trafficking, the public will be able to recognize the signs when they encounter them.
