is particularly prevalent among sex trafficking victims. Reports suggest an increase in university and high school students using social media to recruit and subject other students—some under age 18—to sex trafficking. Colombian women are subjected to forced prostitution in Indonesia. Child sex tourism is prevalent in the Riau Islands bordering Singapore, and Bali is a destination for Indonesian child sex tourists.
The Government of Indonesia does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do so. The government prosecuted 134 suspected traffickers, convicted 79, provided temporary shelter to an unknown number of victims, and conducted anti-trafficking awareness and training events for members of the public and government officials. The government did not make progress in collecting comprehensive, accurate data on its anti-trafficking law enforcement and victim identification efforts. Officials did not consistently employ proactive procedures to identify victims among vulnerable groups and refer them to protective services.The government passed amendments to existing laws allowing victims to obtain restitution from their traffickers, and restitution was awarded in at least three trafficking cases. Inadequate coordination across government agencies and lack of officials’ knowledge of trafficking indicators and legislation impaired anti-trafficking efforts, including implementation of a national anti-trafficking strategy.

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR INDONESIA:
Increase efforts to prosecute and convict labor recruitment agencies, brokers, and corrupt public officials involved in trafficking; develop and implement proactive procedures to identify potential victims among vulnerable groups, including returning migrant workers and persons in prostitution and onboard fishing vessels, and refer such cases to law enforcement officials and victim service providers; improve data collection and public reporting of comprehensive data on legal proceedings against traffickers under the anti-trafficking law; develop anti-trafficking training for judges, prosecutors, police, social workers, and diplomats; prosecute and punish those who obtain commercial sexual services from children; create a national protocol that clarifies responsibilities for prosecuting trafficking cases when they occur outside victims’ respective provinces; increase government funding to support victims’ participation in judicial proceedings; strengthen the national anti-trafficking taskforce and improve coordination across all ministries; and increase awareness-raising campaigns targeted at the public and all levels of government in regions with high incidence of trafficking.

PROSECUTION
The government continued anti-trafficking law enforcement efforts. Indonesia’s anti-trafficking law, passed in 2007, prohibits all forms of trafficking and prescribes penalties of three to 15 years’ imprisonment, which are sufficiently stringent and commensurate with those prescribed for other serious crimes,

such as rape. Officials reported ineffective coordination among police, prosecutors, and judges often impeded the government’s ability to obtain successful convictions, particularly when cases often involved numerous jurisdictions, including other countries. Extrajudicial mediation hampered successful prosecutions, as victims whose families received settlements from traffickers were usually unwilling to participate in official law enforcement proceedings. The government continued to lack a system for comprehensive reporting on anti-trafficking law enforcement data, resulting in inaccuracies and inconsistencies across systems. The Indonesian National Police opened 305 trafficking investigations, but more than 200 were closed with no further prosecutorial action; authorities did not report the number of investigations that led to new prosecutions. A lack of familiarity with the anti-trafficking law’s provisions led some prosecutors and judges to decline cases or use other laws to prosecute traffickers.The attorney general’s office continued to compile trafficking data from courts across Indonesia and reported the prosecution of 134 defendants, an increase from 126 in 2013.The attorney general’s office reported 79 convictions in 2014—a decrease from 118 convictions in 2013. In March 2014, authorities convicted one trafficker for subjecting men to forced labor and debt bondage on a fishing vessel operating in international waters; he was sentenced to one year in prison. A second defendant was convicted of falsifying travel documents but acquitted on trafficking charges and did not receive jail time. During the year, the government organized trainings for police to improve their capacity to investigate trafficking cases. NGOs and government officials reported that endemic corruption among security forces and other authorities remained an impediment to anti-trafficking law enforcement efforts; however, the government did not report any investigations, prosecutions, or convictions of public officials complicit in the facilitation of trafficking.

PROTECTION
The government continued efforts to protect trafficking victims.The government had standard operating procedures for the proactive identification of victims, though it did not consistently employ these among vulnerable groups, such as returning migrant workers who reported problems during their overseas employment.The government continued to rely largely on international organizations and NGOs for the identification of victims. Officials did not collect or report comprehensive data on victims identified or assisted. An international organization identified and provided services for 761 victims and referred many of them to the government for additional services.The government repatriated 703 victims from Malaysia and 481 from Saudi Arabia. The government reported 118 victims were awaiting repatriation in the Indonesian embassy shelter in the United Arab Emirates at the close of the reporting period, but the level of assistance the government provided to them remained unknown. The Indonesian consulate general in Saudi Arabia spearheaded a training course for Indonesian consular officials on identifying trafficking crimes and referring victims to protection. In December 2014 the government began freezing licenses and destroying boats in a crackdown on illegal fishing. The government publicly acknowledged that victims of trafficking were likely among the crew of these boats. After a March 2015 media investigation reported more than 1,000 potential victims of forced labor on fishing vessels were stranded or detained on the island of Benjina, the government initiated efforts to identify and rescue victims. At the close of the reporting period, the government declared its intent to investigate potential trafficking crimes, though it had not yet done so. The government transferred 367 fishermen to temporary shelter inTual and facilitated screening