Indonesia's Challenge in Value Implementation of ASEAN Convention Against Trafficking in Person, Women and Children (ACTIP-WC)

摘要

Human trafficking whose victims are generally women and children is an extraordinary crime that tears humanity. It hence the United Nations as an international institution which upholds human rights paying serious attention as reflected in the 2000 Palermo Protocol. As a regional organization, ASEAN is responsible for this issue too by signing the ASEAN Convention against Trafficking in Person, Especially Women and Children (ACTIP-WC). Each ASEAN member country shall provide protection to any citizen or human being within the scope of its jurisdiction, as well as Indonesia. The Indonesian Government has been implemented those values in various policies, but the victims of Trafficking in Persons (TIP) of Indonesian people especially women and children are still high. Why do this happen? What are the obstacles and challenges faced by the government? Based on the assumption that social problems are always related to various other societal aspects, this study examines them with sociological theory of economics, culture, law and public policy as well as international relations. Those problems are systemic to international relations and need handling from various related parties comprehensively.