East Java haven for trade in women

East Java haven for trade in women

TULUNG AGUNG, East Java: Women and children living in the regency
of Tulung Agung along the southern coast of East Java face a
higher risk of falling prey to traffickers in the sex worker
trade, as most migrant workers in that area are women.

Although workers placement agencies abound in the regency,
many of them only seek to exploit women and children as overseas
sex workers, said Umu Hilmy, the secretary of the Law and Gender
Development Center at the University of Brawijaya.

"The government is still complacent in regards this problem,"
she said on Monday.

East Java immigration officials, she said, recorded that six
to 20 East Java sex workers were deported monthly and returned to
Indonesia.

Umu added that Indonesian women made up the biggest share of
sex workers in Japan. Quoting a survey by the United Nations
Ecosoc, she said that "out of 10,000 sex workers in Japan, 5,000
of them come from Indonesia." -- Antara