Preventing Human Trafficking, Ministry of Social Affairs Provides Social Guidance and Assistance

JAKARTA (October 31, 2019) - The Directorate General of Social Rehabilitation of the Ministry of Social Affairs Republic Indonesia in collaboration with the Mataram Panca Karsa Social Welfare Institution (LKS), the Central Lombok Social Service, the West Lombok Regency Social Service, and the NTB Province Social Service holds Social guidance event. This activity was attended by 490 Indonesian Citizens of Migrant Human Trafficking (WNI M KPO) who had been returned to their places of origin.

The aim is to provide knowledge and skills to Indonesian KPO citizens so that they are able to improve their social functioning in the community and have a pilot business to improve family welfare.

The Director General of Social Rehabilitation, Edi Suharto, gave direction to the Social Guidance activities for 340 M KPO Indonesian citizens at the SMKN 1 Praya Hall, Central Lombok Regency and 150 M KPO Indonesian citizens in the Sukma Rasa Restaurant Hall, West Lombok Regency. The government has made efforts to address these problems from upstream to downstream, including social rehabilitation, repatriation and social reintegration. On this occasion, business stimulant assistance was given to 340 Indonesian KPO Indonesians in Central Lombok amounting to Rp. 326,400,000, - and 150 Indonesian Citizens M KPO in West Lombok Rp. 144,000,000, - through their respective accounts. The total assistance provided in the two regions was Rp. 470.4 million, -. Business stimulant assistance is provided so that migrant workers have business embryos, even if the capital is not too large.

This business stimulant assistance will provide economic strengthening so that migrant workers have jobs and do not return abroad to work, "said Edi." Working abroad has many impacts, among others, leaving their family, both husband and wife, children lacking affection. , "ordered Edi.

The social skills guidance provided consists of entrepreneurial practice activities, product introduction practices, business start-up strategies and marketing strategies. Since September 2015, there are 62,729 problematic Indonesian migrant workers who were deported from Malaysia and returned to their places of origin. The province of NTB ranks second with the largest number of problematic migrant citizens who are returned to their places of origin, namely 3,768 people. WNI M KPO who are returned to their home areas need social reintegration assistance that can be accessed for the sustainability of life.

Social reintegration assistance in the form of life skills training and economic opportunities which can play an important role in supporting the recovery and reintegration of victims of human trafficking in an effort to prevent retrafficking from happening again. Indonesian M KPO who are returned to their home areas experience a continuing risk situation, such as: lack of information about access to assistance, risks and problems related to repatriation such as debt traps, family disharmony, retraffick, loss of documents / personal identity to physical illness / disability, continues without assistance, namely being vulnerable to being trafficked again because of not getting access to decent work, a deteriorating economic situation and being trapped / in debt.