INDONESIA'S ROLES IN COMBATING COMMERCIAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN (CSEC): A CASE STUDY OF CHILD SEX TOURISM (CST), 2007-2012

Abstract

Children have always been targeted as victims of various forms of exploitation. The exploitation of children often happens in many countries, without the exception of Asian countries. Commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) is a phenomenon that has been occurred since long time ago. Child trafficking for sexual purpose, child prostitution, child pornography, child sex tourism and child early marriage are the forms of CSEC which also categorized as human rights violations. These happen to thousands of children. Many of them involve in commercial sex trade, particularly at tourist destinations that become scourge for countries in which its highest national income from such industry. This certainly becomes threat to the security of children in tourism areas. Indonesia as a country where its international arrivals are quite high, it is also counted in the top three of child sex tourist destinations. Therefore, Indonesia has performed several actions and programs to combat child sex tourism that rampantly occurred in tourism areas in the country. This study is an analysis on how Indonesia plays its roles as primary security provider in combating child sex tourism in a period of time.