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Overcoming the Trauma of Human Trafficking
She thought she knew everything about working overseas having spent two years working in Singapore. After all, she wasn’t a wide-eyed naive girl who had left her village for the first time. She was a relatively urbane and career-minded woman, having more than 10 years of experience in the service industry.
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Traditional Arts Support Trafficked Victim?s Recovery
Nineteen-year-old Mimi is doing her best to stay busy and focus on future business plans while struggling with the memory of her experiences as a victim of trafficking.
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Community Partners in Fighting Crime
Community policing pioneer Brigadier General Nanan Soekarnan is determined to make West Kalimantan a better place to live.
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Going With the Flow - Like Water
“Since that experience, my mind is blank. I am just like the water, going with the flow without any specific goal,” said Putri, one of over 1,000 trafficked victims assisted by IOM. It is a disheartening fact that human traffickers are not always pimps or unscrupulous labour recruiters but can also be members of a victim’s own family.
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Rolling Success Story
“Business is improving”, say Sitihawa, proudly showing off the clothes stores in one of the few rooms in her home undamaged by the December 2004 tsunami.
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A Breath of Fresh Air
Ridwan Namin, 46, is pleased to see his two energetic boys dashing around the vast lands of IOM’s recently-completed permanent settlement site in Jantho, Aceh Besar.
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Opening the Eyes of Police Officers
Pangasihan Gaut brings an impressive list of credentials and decades of invaluable experience and prestige to her work as a human rights consultant in IOM’s six-year-old project to support the Indonesian government’s effort to reform the National Police.
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Greater Assistance for Trafficking Victims in Makassar
Dr Peter Sahelangi’s tireless efforts to assist trafficking victims at the Police Hospital in Makassar, South Sulawesi over the past 12 years have received a new lease on life through a joint program with IOM.
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Law Enforcement Reaching out to Women
Veteran police officer Kasnawati wants to use her training in community policing to help improve the strained relationship between local law enforcement and women in communities across Indonesia.
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Home at Last
Twenty-six-year-old Sunni from North Sumatra, Indonesia, was a prime target for human traffickers. With both her husband and father serving three-year prison sentences for their roles in the separatist insurgency in neighbouring Aceh province, and having limited education herself, Sunni was barely making ends meet doing odd jobs.
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A Passion for Assisting Others
A passion for her work is what keeps Suryantini employed in her emotionally draining job as a staff psychologist at Indonesia’s first free medical recovery centre for victims of human trafficking.
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