Saving Aceh's Orphans from Traffickers
January 4, 2005 12:50 PM,
Laksamana.Net - The government, police, non-government organizations and religious groups have vowed to stop child traffickers from selling children whose parents were among the approximately 100,000 people killed ...child traffickers are now preying on some of the estimated 50,000 orphans at refugee camps and hospitals in Aceh and neighboring North Sumatra province. They allege that children are being stolen and then offered for sale or adoption via cellular phone SMS (short message service) text messages... urging people to help out by adopting "tsunami orphans" in need of new homes and families after the December 26 natural disaster...
Child trafficking has for years been rampant in Indonesia, with many children reportedly trafficked to Malaysia, Taiwan and Japan to serve as sex slaves....