THE PERSPECTIVE OF COMMUNITY KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE TOWARDS HUMAN TRAFFICKING (STUDY IN SENDING AREA AND UNDERDEVELOPED REGIONS)
Nadiroh, Uswatun Hasanah and Shahibah Yuliani

Universitas Negeri Jakarta

Abstract

Based on the results of research conducted by International Organization for Migration (IOM), Indonesia is in the first position with the largest number of human trafficking places in the world. In December 2014, number of human trafficking victims are 7,193 people with 92.46% are children and women, and 82% are women who have worked at own country and overseas for labor exploitation, while 18% are men who mostly exploit while working as ship crew to fishing or other laborers. So this research is important to prevent human trafficking.
This research objective was using survey method and was to obtain empirical data about community’s knowledge and attitude towards human trafficking case in East Nusa Tenggara, how the difference of knowledge and attitude of community to human trafficking case between men and women and difference of public attitudes toward human trafficking among various classification community. The number of samples of the study were 586 respondents who were the head of the family or family members, taken by multistages random sampling. Based on the result of the research, it is found that peoples knowledge on human trafficking is still in various categories High, Medium and Low. Furthermore, when viewed from the gender, the knowledge of man is higher than the woman, on the contrary to the attitude towards the Crime of Trafficking The womans attitude is more positive than the man. Thus there needs to be policies and programs integrated in achieving sustainable development goals
This research was made by lecturers at study program of Civic and Social Education of State University of Jakarta.

Keywords: Attitude, Community Knowledge, Human Trafficking,Underdevelopment Region.

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