Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery Poverty drives the unsuspecting poor into the
hands of traffickers Published reports & articles
from 2000 to 2025 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Malaysia.htm
Malaysia is a
destination and, to a lesser extent, a source and transit country for women
and children trafficked for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation and
for men, women, and children trafficked for the purpose of forced labor.
Malaysia is mainly a destination country for men, women, and children who
migrate willingly from Indonesia, Nepal, Thailand, the People’s Republic of
China (PRC), the Philippines, Burma, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India,
and Vietnam for work – usually legal, contractual labor – and are
subsequently subjected to conditions of involuntary servitude in the
domestic, agricultural, food service, construction, plantation, industrial,
and fisheries sectors. Some foreign women and girls are also victims of
commercial sexual exploitation. - U.S.
State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June,
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Kin of human
trafficking victims seek Government intervention Asian News
International ANI, Kendrapara Orissa, June 10, 2007 news.webindia123.com/news/ar_showdetails.asp?id=706100694&cat=&n_date=20070610 [accessed 20
February 2011] "Our brothers
(in A Bhubaneswar-based
placement agency lured seven youths of Kendrapara District's Mangalpur and
Raghunathpur villages with an offer of lucrative job at Omega Wood Industry
in Kuala Lumpur. The youths also paid
the placement agency over 100,000 rupees for a job in Malaysia. The moment they
landed in Kuala Lumpur on January 10, their passports and visas were snatched
by a member of the placement agency.
They were then taken to the jungles. But instead of getting an office
job, they were forced to do physical labour and were kept in inhuman
conditions. Migrant Worker’s
Death Exposes Slave-like Conditions Anil Netto, Inter
Press Service News Agency IPS, ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37646 [accessed 8
September 2011] www.ipsnews.net/2007/05/labour-malaysia-migrant-workers-death-exposes-slave-like-conditions/ [accessed 3
September 2016] Ganesh was reportedly
subjected to daily beatings, deprived of food and sufficient rest, and
chained and locked in a dark room. He was eventually dumped in a wooded area,
but was found by villagers who sent him to hospital. He succumbed to his
injuries on Apr. 27. Pictures of his gaunt face, the horrendous bruises on
his back and his protruding rib cage shocked Malaysians. In hospital, he was
little more than a bag of blistered skin and bones. ***
ARCHIVES *** Human trafficking:
Four more enforcement agency officers picked up [Catagories
– Official Complicity, Smuggling] Remar Nordin,
Johor Baru, The Star, 24 June 2020 [accessed 24 June
2020] Comm Ayob added that the suspects' modus operandi was to
provide entry and exit stamps, believed to be fake,
to help immigrants whose travel passes had expired for more than a year
during the restricted movement control order (MCO). “They could not get
out through the illegal way because we managed to block their exit with the
arrest of 18 enforcement personnel earlier this month, so they tried the
legal route. “The immigrants
were required to pay between RM1,500 to RM2,500 per
person, ” he said, adding that their exit process would be handled by the
corrupt officers. Trafficking Still A Problem In
Malaysia The ASEAN Post Team,
5 April 2020 theaseanpost.com/article/trafficking-still-problem-malaysia [accessed 5 April
2020] ECPAT
International, formerly known as End Child Prostitution and Trafficking,
released a report entitled ‘Sex Trafficking of Children in Malaysia’. In that
2016 report, ECPAT noted that Malaysian children and women were trafficked to
Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Canada, US, Europe and Australia for
prostitution. But these children weren’t just trafficked overseas as the
report also stated that girls from indigenous groups and rural areas in
Malaysia were also internally trafficked for the same purposes. “The demand for sex drives child sex
trafficking globally while poverty, domestic violence and abuse,
discrimination and the desire for a better life makes
children vulnerable. Children are especially vulnerable to being trafficked
because they are often uneducated, easy to overpower and easy to convince.
Children may also be in a position where they feel they must help to support
their families and may be sold or sent abroad by family members to do so. Slavery in Malaysia Sheith Khidhir,
The Asean Post, 26 August 2019 theaseanpost.com/article/slavery-malaysia [accessed 27 August
2019] Back in 2015, mass
graves of people believed to be Rohingya who were
victims of human trafficking were discovered in the jungles north of Wang Kelian in an area called Wang Berma.
Wang Kelian is a village in Perlis, a state in
northern Malaysia and is located on the Malaysia-Thailand Border. Reports stated that
as many as 139 graves and 29 illegal detention camps were discovered during
operations carried out by the Malaysian police. Conflicting reports have
emerged as to when the Malaysian police had knowledge of the camps and
accusations of an alleged cover up by the police have also been made as
reports emerged that the camps were destroyed before investigations were
completed. 2020 Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices: Malaysia U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, 30 March 2021 www.state.gov/reports/2020-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/malaysia/
[accessed 15 June
2021] PROHIBITION OF
FORCED OR COMPULSORY LABOR A variety of
sources reported occurrences of forced labor or conditions indicative of
forced labor in plantation agriculture, electronics factories, garment
production, rubber-product industries, and domestic service among both adults
and children (also see section 7.c.). Employers,
employment agents, and labor recruiters subjected some migrants to forced
labor or debt bondage. Many companies hired foreign workers using recruiting
or outsourcing companies, creating uncertainty about the legal relationship between
the worker, the outsourcing company, and the owner
of the workplace, making workers more vulnerable to exploitation and
complicating dispute resolution. Labor union representatives noted that
recruiting agents in the countries of origin and in Malaysia sometimes
imposed high fees, making migrant workers vulnerable to debt bondage. Nonpayment of wages
remained a concern. Passport confiscation by employers increased migrant
workers’ vulnerability to forced labor; the practice was illegal but
widespread and generally went unpunished. Migrant workers without access to
their passports were more vulnerable to harsh working conditions, lower wages
than promised, unexpected wage deductions, and poor housing. NGOs reported
that agents or employers in some cases drafted contracts that included a
provision for employees to sign over the right to hold their passports to the
employer or an agent PROHIBITION OF CHILD
LABOR AND MINIMUM AGE FOR EMPLOYMENT Child labor
occurred in some family businesses. Child labor in urban areas was common in
the informal economy, including family food businesses and night markets, and
in small-scale industry. Child labor was also evident among migrant domestic
workers. NGOs reported that
stateless children in Sabah were especially vulnerable to labor exploitation
in palm oil production, forced begging, and work in service industries,
including restaurants. Although the National Union of Plantation Workers
reported it was rare to find children involved in plantation work in
peninsular Malaysia, others reported instances of child labor on palm oil
plantations across the country. Freedom House
Country Report 2020 Edition freedomhouse.org/country/malaysia/freedom-world/2020 [accessed 3 May 2020] G4. DO INDIVIDUALS
ENJOY EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM FROM ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION? Rural residents and
foreign workers, especially those working illegally, are vulnerable to
exploitative or abusive working conditions, including forced labor or debt
bondage. Foreign workers make up over a fifth of the country’s workforce;
about two million are documented, and estimates of the undocumented range
from one million to more than three million. The authorities’ periodic
crackdowns on illegal foreign workers can result in punishment rather than
protection for victims of human trafficking. There have been no
convictions of Malaysians for involvement in a network of human trafficking
camps along the Thai-Malaysian border since the sites were discovered in
2015. The camps included mass graves holding the bodies of dozens of victims,
and corrupt Malaysian officials were thought to have been complicit in the
operation. Rohingya Women Flee
Violence Only to Be Sold Into Marriage Chris Buckley and
Ellen Barry, International N.Y. Times, Gelugor, Malaysia, 2 Aug 2015 [accessed 3 August
2015] The young woman had
been penned in a camp in the sweltering jungle of southern Thailand for two
months when she was offered a deal. She fled Myanmar
this year hoping to reach safety in Malaysia, after anti-Muslim rioters
burned her village. But her family could not afford the $1,260 the smugglers
demanded to complete the journey. She joined the
hundreds of young Rohingya women from Myanmar sold into marriage to Rohingya
men already in Malaysia as the price of escaping violence and poverty in
their homeland. While some Rohingya
women agree to such marriages to escape imprisonment or worse at the hands of
smugglers, others are tricked or coerced. Some are only teenagers. Myth 1 - After the
Brothel Nicholas D. Kristof,
The New York Times, Poipet www.oneangrygirl.net/brothel.html [accessed 20
February 2011] www.nytimes.com/2005/01/26/opinion/after-the-brothel.html [accessed 12 June
2017] The traffickers who
were supposed to get her and four female friends jobs as dishwashers smuggled
them instead to Exploitation of
Bangladeshis in Malaysia - HR activist terms it human trafficking The Daily Star, April
11, 2009 www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=83694 [accessed 20
February 2011] The exploitative practices
centring Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia constitute nothing other than human
trafficking; the governments of Bangladesh and Malaysia have not been able to
protect the workers' rights, said Irene Fernandez, a veteran migrants' rights
activist of Malaysia. When they brought
workers in surplus numbers to Malaysia, they were only interested in making
fast cash. The outsourcing companies told Bangladeshi job brokers 'you pay me
500 ringgit per worker and find jobs for them and do whatever'. So, Bangladeshi
job brokers then bought the workers from the outsourcing companies, and
literally made them slaves. The brokers then told the workers 'you go and
work, I will give you food and lodging'. And the workers were put to work for
two, three, or four months. So, the contract that had been signed between the
workers and recruiting agencies in Bangladesh, which was attested by the
Bangladesh government, had no meaning any more. The question is
now, why no action is being taken against the Malaysian outsourcing companies
for the fact that they violated the contracts. Again, the governments of both
countries have not been able to enforce the rules. Malaysia has to make its
companies accountable, and Bangladesh has to make its recruiting agencies
accountable. Because the passports of the workers are being held and the
workers who don't have any job are being locked up by the job brokers or the
outsourcing companies, it constitutes nothing but human trafficking. And,
with the global economic recession, the situation is going to worsen, because
many of the companies, particularly in the manufacturing sector, are
collapsing. Defrauded labourers
return from Malaysia www.china.org.cn/english/2004/Jan/85299.htm [accessed 23
April 2012] They supposed to go
to work at construction sites and had their passports taken by their
employers. After nearly 20 days, they found out they not only earned little money,
but faced possible punishment if caught by police, since local laws ban
people from working without a permit in No Sanctuary:
Trafficking of Burmese people at the ThaiMalay Border Elaine Pearson,
Special to The Nation, February 13, 2009 www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/02/13/opinion/opinion_30095590.php 107.6.109.82/news/2009/02/12/no-sanctuary-trafficking-burmese-people-thaimalay-border [accessed 28 August
2014] www.hrw.org/news/2009/02/12/no-sanctuary-trafficking-burmese-people-thaimalay-border [accessed 5 February
2018] Last year, Human
Rights Watch interviewed two dozen undocumented Burmese, including Rohingya,
who described how Malaysian officials apprehended them during raids, kept
them in detention centres, and then dumped them at the Thai border, often
directly into the hands of waiting criminal gangs. Many of the Burmese I
spoke with said that Malaysian immigration officials accompanying the
deportees called the gangs en route to arrange where and when to deposit
their human cargo. Deportees with
money can pay smugglers to return them to Malaysia undetected. But those
without money usually fall into the hands of traffickers. One Burmese woman
told me, "If we don't pay we will be killed, or sold, or forced to marry
unknown men." A Burmese man
described how he was deported to the border with 50 other Burmese. Only 10
could pay their way out. Traffickers sold the rest: "The gang said they
will send you to work on fishing boats or rubber plantations. Some who tried
to escape were shot and killed." Local activists call it a
"revolving door of abuse". Take trafficking of
refugees seriously Alice Nah, The
Malaysian Insider, January 22, 2009 www.themalaysianinsider.com/opinion/article/Take-trafficking-of-refugees-seriously/ [accessed 20
February 2011] hakam.org.my/wp/2015/05/26/take-trafficking-of-refugees-seriously-alice-nah/ [accessed 3 May
2020] Last week, the US
Senate Foreign Relations Committee drew attention to the trafficking of
migrants and refugees at the Malaysia-Thai border. They highlighted the
shocking fact that Malaysian law enforcement officials are complicit in the
“sale” of people to human smugglers/traffickers. WHAT HAPPENS AT THE BORDER? - Deportees who
have returned to Malaysia describe that they are brought from immigration
detention depots to locations at the border under guard and in handcuffs in
vehicles. When they disembark, they are forced to walk into areas guarded by
human smugglers/traffickers. They have no way of escape. They are caught and
kept under armed surveillance in confined, crowded and isolated locations,
often deep in the jungle. Some women are raped repeatedly. They are given handphones and instructed
to contact family/friends to raise money for their release; they are beaten
and threatened into submission. Prices vary between RM1,400 and RM2,500. Some
who have dared to question why prices are so high have been told that this
covers the amount paid to immigration officials. They are told to deposit the
money into specific bank accounts. Once the money is deposited, they are
brought in cars to designated locations and released. It costs more to be
sent back to Malaysia; some are released in Thailand. Those who are unable to pay are sold — men
to work on fishing boats and plantations, and women to brothels or “private
owners” who keep them in servitude for sex and/or forced labour. Those who
have been forced to work on boats tell harrowing tales of having seen fellow
workers shot and thrown overboard if they protest. Anti-Trafficking
Law Rescues 33 Victims Of Human Trafficking Malaysian National
News Agency Bernama.com, Kuala Lumpur, June 3, 2008 www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/printable.php?id=337062 [accessed 28 August
2014] Two of the victims
were Thai women, aged 25 and 27, smuggled into the country by a Malaysian who
had since been prosecuted, with the two women turning up as key witnesses, he
said. One of the
significant problems was distinguishing between genuinely trafficked victims
and those involved in so-called "self-trafficking" or
"voluntary trafficking", he said. Chor said many
foreign women who had been arrested or rescued from prostitution claimed to
be victims of trafficking. "However,
further investigation revealed that many had entered the country on their own
accord for economic gain," he said. US Senate
'Trafficking of Burmese Migrants' Report Holds Malaysia and ASEAN Responsible
and Demands Immediate Action Press Statement by
Charles Santiago in Klang, Member of Parliament,24
April 2009 www.malaysia-today.net/us-senate-trafficking-of-burmese-migrants-report/ [accessed 28 August
2014] www.dapmalaysia.org/english/2009/apr09/bul/bul3735.htm [accessed 3 May
2020] The report suggests
that Malaysian authorities are in cohorts with human traffickers in Southern
Thailand: “Burmese migrants are reportedly taken by Malaysian
Government personnel from detention facilities to the Malaysia-Thailand
border for deportation. Upon arrival at the Malaysia-Thailand border, human
traffickers reportedly take possession of the migrants and issue ransom
demands on an individual basis. Migrants state that freedom is possible only
once money demands are met. Specific payment procedures are outlined, which
reportedly include bank accounts in Kuala Lumpur to which money should be
transferred. The committee was informed that on some occasions, the
‘‘attendance’’ list reviewed by traffickers along the border was identical to
the attendance list read prior to departure from the Malaysian detention
facilities. Migrants state that those unable to pay are turned
over to human peddlers in Human Traffickers
Get Free Rein with Burmese Migrants in Kyaw Min Htun, Radio
Free Asia, Baling www.david-kilgour.com/2008/Feb_09_2008_11.htm [accessed 20
February 2011] Burmese migrant
workers in Several secret
jails or deportation camps exist around the country to hold foreign nationals
found without papers. From there, officials take them to the Thai border,
where trafficking gangs have close ties to Malaysian officials and have been
tipped off to their arrival. Viet Nam News, Kuala
Lampur, 4 Feb 2008 vietnamnews.vn/society/173551/malaysia-viet-nam-police-to-investigate-human-trafficking.html [accessed 28 August
2014] Malaysian Deputy
Inspector-General of Police Ismail Omar said that scores of young women from
the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta region in Viet Nam had been enticed by promises
of well-paid work as waitresses in Malaysia.
The trafficking ring allegedly organised their passports and flight
tickets and then forced them into prostitution. If they refused, they were locked up,
beaten and starved, according to the report. Ex-US Marine leads
rescue of Pinays held in Malaysia Lito Katigbak,
Manila Mail, www.philstar.com/headlines/11812/16-filipinos-rescued-human-traffickers-malaysia [accessed 28 August
2014] Ejercito wanted to
work as a nurse in the US may alienate
Muslims over human trade -Malaysia Jalil Hamid,
Reuters-Africa, At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 8
September 2011] Still, With Malaysians
reluctant to take up menial jobs, the country is one of Asia's largest
importers of foreign labour, which makes up a quarter of a workforce of about
10.5 million, particularly on plantations, in construction and as maids. Malaysians got a harrowing glimpse into the
treatment of some domestic workers when newspapers reported the death in
April of an Indian migrant worker after eight months of being beaten, chained
up and starved by his employers in a sauce business. No Whipping For Human Trafficking Offenders [PDF] Malaysian National
News Agency Bernama.com, www.malaysianbar.org.my/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=9068 [Last accessed 20
February 2011 – Access is now restricted] The government does not plan to introduce whipping for human trafficking offenders as it is not in line with international laws that seek to abolish corporal punishment, the Dewan Negara heard today. "We will only extend the jail term in accordance with what the United Nations (UN) wants," said Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz when winding-up the debate on the Anti-Human Trafficking Bill 2007. Suppressing human
trafficking Tan Choe Choe, New
Straits Times, 04-29-2007 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 8
September 2011] There are more than 800,000 people being trafficked — for sexual exploitation, forced labour, begging — across international borders each year. In June 2006, 19 Malaysian women were rescued from brothels in Britain which involved a multi-million ringgit human trafficking syndicate. The number of trafficked women rescued in Malaysia stood at 371 between 2004 and last year, but this could be the tip of the iceberg. The situation is not alarming. The proposed Anti-Trafficking in Persons Bill is our preventive measure. But we recognise that if we don’t control the situation now, Malaysia may become a trafficking hotspot. This is because of it being one of the most economically dynamic countries in the region. humantrafficking.org,
May 17, 2007 -- Adapted from: "Foreign Workers also Victims of Human
Trafficking." The New Star Online.
27 April 2007 www.humantrafficking.org/updates/622 [accessed 20
February 2011] Human trafficking
is not only confined to vice activities. Hundreds of foreign workers who are
duped by agents and brought into the country are also victims of human
trafficking. The agents would
then sell the workers or outsource them to employers who need them. Last
year, MTUC received 400 complaints of foreign workers here who are being
oppressed by their employers.
Rajasekaran said the numbers could be higher as they believe for every
reported case, there were between 10 and 20 cases that go unreported.
"These are workers who are brought here but left stranded without jobs
for months. There are also cases of workers not being paid for months. They
are afraid to go to the authorities as their travel documents are being held
by the employers. US Official Urges Voice of At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 8
September 2011] [scroll down+] On Saturday, at a
crisis center in Miller says
Indonesians are particularly vulnerable to human traffickers because of the
country's poverty, widespread slavery rings, and lack of law enforcement due
to corruption. Human trafficking
ring busted Deutsche
Presse-Agentur (German Press Agency) DPA, www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=102933&version=1&template_id=45&parent_id=25 [accessed 20
February 2011] The victims, aged 14 to 17, were promised jobs in Jakarta as domestic workers, but were then flown to West Kalimantan province on the Indonesian side of Borneo and taken across the border into Malaysia, sometimes using false travel documents. - htcp Khmer girls'
trafficking ordeal Kylie Morris, BBC
News, Thai-Cambodian border, 2 June, 2005 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4599709.stm [accessed 20
February 2011] LOOKING FOR CASH - She and her
cousin were 16 years old when they decided, against their family's wishes, to
travel to "At first I refused to have sex with men. Then I was beaten so badly I had to hide my face for a month, until it healed. Then I was told again I would have to sleep with the customers. I knew if I refused I would be beaten again. I had no choice but to agree." - htcp Press Release:
United Nations, 10 March 2005 www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0503/S00179.htm [accessed 20
February 2011] The prosecution
rested on the testimony of eight Cambodian women, who left their home village
believing they would be offered work as noodle and clothes sellers in Malaysia Detains Officials
On Human Trafficking Allegations [DOC] Agence France-Presse
AFP, www.childtrafficking.org/pdf/user/malaysia_2_11_05.doc [accessed 7 July
2013] Officials were caught
because they were issuing permanent resident identity cards to
foreigners," Azmi said. The
newspaper said police had also seized 150 identity cards, including new ones
with hi-tech microchip security features, from foreigners. Report Reveals
Horrors of Foreign Sex-Slaves Baradan Kuppusamy,
Inter Press Service News Agency IPS, www.ipsnews.net/2005/02/malaysia-report-reveals-horrors-of-foreign-sex-slaves/ [accessed 7 July
2013] "We were hired
as maids but on arrival tricked and forced into prostitution. We were held as
sex slaves and forced to service numerous clients," they said. Anti-Trafficking
Laws Needed 28 January 2005 --
Source:
thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/1/28/nation/10018043&sec=nation [accessed 7 July
2013] Suhakam said often foreign
women were arrested but the “masterminds” or “Johns” were let off easily
because of the absence of an anti-trafficking law. Suhakam recommends that
once there is clear evidence that the women were trafficked, smuggled or
cheated into prostitution, they should be sent back home instead of being
made to languish in prison. Women’s Groups Back
New Laws Against Traffickers The Star, Petaling
Jaya, 1 February 2005 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 8
September 2011] The women, who said
they were drawn to Help Wanted -
Background Human Rights Watch,
July 21, 2004 www.hrw.org/en/node/11993/section/5 [accessed 20
February 2011] TRAFFICKING - Trafficking
victims in Help Wanted -
Workplace Abuses in Human
Rights Watch, July 21, 2004 www.hrw.org/en/node/11993/section/7 [accessed 20
February 2011] HOURS OF WORK, REST
DAYS, AND WORKLOAD - Indonesian domestic workers employed in Malaysia
typically work sixteen to eighteen hour days, seven days a week, without any
holidays. Most have no significant time to rest during the day,
although some are able to take one-hour breaks in the afternoon.
Indonesian domestic workers who cared for children in addition to their
cleaning responsibilities reported being “on call” around the clock, as in
the case of Susanti, who told Human Rights Watch. TRAFFICKING INTO FORCED LABOR - I was surprised
because I had to do housework and then make soya bean drink also. The
first employers were cruel…. I had to do my work in a hurry, clean the
bed, clean the furniture, make soya bean drink from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.,
then go to the market to sell from 1:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. I had no
rest day, and when I got home at 11:00 p.m., I had to clean the clothes and
then iron. I slept at 1:00 a.m. Disappearing into
the underworld Jeswant Kaur, 18
April 2004 -- Source: www.emedia.com.my/Current_News/MM/Sunday/Frontpage/20040418082107 At one time this article
had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 8
September 2011] THE LINK BETWEEN
MISSING PERSONS AND TRAFFICKING - “In IOM launches
initiative to combat human trafficking UN Integrated
Regional Information Networks IRIN, www.irinnews.org/report/23869/pakistan-iom-launches-initiative-to-combat-human-trafficking [accessed 9 March
2015] In 2002, police
recovered 11 infants - the oldest barely 18 months - from a middle-class www.smc.org.ph/amnews/amn040731/southeast/indonesia040731.htm [accessed 20
February 2011] TRAFFICKING - In Jambi
province, there are reports that some 100 children, aged 12 to 15 years, are
being trafficked annually into the sex trade in various cities, and sometimes
in Malaysia and Singapore. Maid abuse case
shocks Malaysia BBC News, 20 May
2004 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3732241.stm [accessed 20
February 2011] An Indonesian maid
has told a harrowing story of how she was repeatedly burnt with an iron and
scalded with boiling water by her Malaysian employer's wife. The Elimination of
Trafficking in Persons in www.protectionproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/NAP-Indonesia_2004-2005.pdf [accessed 20
February 2011] [page 29] VICTIM RETURN AND
REPATRIATION
- A report made by the Task Force of the Coordination Team for the Return of
Indonesian Migrant Workers (TKI) with Problems and Their Families from
Malaysia (Satgas TKPTKIB), indicated that the policy that nationals of ASEAN
countries do not need to apply for tourist or visit visas when they visit the
ASEAN countries has been abused by irresponsible people who manipulate the
facility and use them to send Indonesian nationals to Malaysia to work there.
The absence of the working visas have caused many of them suffer exploitation
in forms of passport withholding, low wages, illegal confinement, even
inhumane treatment. This is because when their visiting visas have expired,
the TKIs become illegal aliens as they have overstayed, and the status have
made them more vulnerable to exploitation. Girls from China
tricked into forced prostitution in Malaysia Agence France-Presse
AFP, www.malaysiakini.com/news/14272 [accessed 23 April
2012] An increasing
number of naive young girls from ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Freedom House
Country Report 2018 Edition freedomhouse.org/country/malaysia/freedom-world/2018 [accessed 3 May 2020] G4. DO INDIVIDUALS
ENJOY EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM FROM ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION? The trafficking of
men, women, and children for the purpose of forced labor or sex work remains
a problem, but authorities have recently made some efforts to address the
issue, as reflected by an increase in trafficking prosecutions and
convictions. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61615.htm [accessed 10
February 2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Foreign trafficking victims were kept compliant through involuntary
confinement, confiscation of travel documents, debt bondage, and physical
abuse. During the year there were reports of foreign women escaping from
apartments where they were held and forced to serve as unwilling prostitutes.
According to news reports, these women said that they were lured to the
country by promises of legitimate employment but forced into prostitution
upon their arrival in the country. In September authorities rescued eight
trafficked Indonesian women forced to work as prostitutes in conditions
intended to make them pregnant. According to a senior police official, their
babies were sold soon after birth by the traffickers. All
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