Many Indonesian women who turned out to be sold to the United States, and then plunged into the black valley and treated cruelly. Shandra Tersebutlah Woworuntu, an Indonesian woman trafficked in the United States. He was employed as a prostitute brutally. Reported German state broadcasters, Deutsche Welle.
Shandra is a mother and also a graduate of a college when the first came to America. Once arriving at John F Kennedy airport, he was taken away forcibly by the threat of a gun by a gang that operated in New York. That was the beginning he was trapped in the world of prostitution and violence in the United States.
After losing his job as a financial analyzer at a bank as a result of the Asian economic crisis, he decided to apply for a temporary worker at a hotel in Chicago. After passing the test, with a visa from the U.S. Embassy, he left his daughter and flew to the United States.
"I am very excited. I think this is the American Dream. I will get the money and come back again after six months, "he said. But, on the first night upon arrival in the United States, he was employed at a brothel in New York and moved around from one pimp to another pimp-pimp from a Malaysian citizen, Johnnie Wong, then to a Taiwanese man who only can speak Cantonese and even to a pimp United States. "They put a gun to my head and I just thought to save lives," said Shandra, who is now an activist anti-human trafficking and slavery in Survivors of Slavery.
Many of the women he met were Indonesian. Those who work in brothels also have been deceived from abroad. Most of them are teenagers. A girl aged 10 to 12 years who he met there and he did not know its origins are forced to work in the casinos and hotels. The customer will choose a woman in their ranks or booked by phone. "The phone is always ringing," recalls Shandra. The women who were forcibly diperkejarkan, added Shandra, are often not fed, but often treated to alcohol and drugs.
Shandra also be blind-time many times, because often transferred using a van that had tinted windows and big bodied bouncers guarded. Shandra also required to repay recruitment fees of U.S. $ 30 thousand.
Shandra kendela can escape through the open bathroom on the second floor of a house. Previously, he had persuaded other women to come run away with him. She and the other woman was jumped. And miraculously, both survived without injury.
Since the first day of arrival in the United States, Shandra've never had a passport because his passport has been seized. After weeks of living in the violence-police, the FBI, and the church refused to believe his story-he finally got help from Safe Horizon, an agent in the United States that provide assistance to victims of crime and drug abuse.
The story does seem absurd, but the agency said rescue Shandra is common. It does not only happen to strangers, young people too often the United States to escape and put themselves in a dangerous condition. They are tempted to offer to be a model or a music contract.
The Alliance to End Slavery Slavery or Alliance stopper and Trafficking estimates, approximately 14,000 to 17,000 men, women, and children each year are smuggled illegally into the United States to be employed in the sex trade world, in the factory, farm, or in bars. "This is organized crime and they are very organized," said Melysa
Sperber, Director of the Alliance to End Slavery. The group is calling on the U.S. government greater control of the recruiters who deceive people who are prone to come to the United States.
U.S. State Department realized his country was the country of destination, transit and origin for men, women, and children, both foreign nationals and U.S. citizens, who were subjected to forced labor, debt bondage, involuntary servitude, and sex trafficking . The victims are mostly coming from Mexico, Thailand, the Philippines, Honduras, and Indonesia.
Several years ago, Consortium for Indonesian Migrant Workers Defense (Kopbumi) also noted the existence of trade every day thousands of Indonesian women overseas. They were used as prostitutes and some are used as domestic servants. Kopbumi recorded at least five syndicated trafficking pathways, namely Belawan, Riau, Entikong, Nunukan, and Soekarno-Hatta Airport.
"Port of Belawan is the entrance of thousands of illegal migrants from North Sumatra towards Johor, Malaysia. The broker or nominee Tekong migrants enter illegally into Johor generally use this route by ship, "said Rachim of Trisakti Kopbumi, a few years ago.
Meanwhile, Riau used by brokers / Tekong as an entrance to Malaysia via Singapore, Johor and Penang Island. "Before the third place, they were smuggled by boat and traditional boats towards Batu Ampar, Batam, Sri Bintang Pura, and Louth. The illegal migrant workers were generally originated from East Java, Central Java and East Nusa Tenggara. They will generally work as domestic servants or factory workers in Johor, "said Trisakti.
Nunukan is the entrance to Sabah, Malaysia. "Path commonly used illegal brokers or Tekong is Tawao Beach. Prospective migrant workers generally come from South Sulawesi and East Java, "said Trisakti.
He also noted the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport as one of the candidates for the doors to smuggle illegal workers. "Usually it lasts from 06:00 until 10:00. The goal is generally Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, and the Middle East, "he said.
Entikong path used for those who would be sold to Sarawak, Malaysia. "Geographically, Entikong is door land border between Indonesia and Malaysia. In addition to wearing a landline Entikong, sometimes smuggling women also wore sea lanes, direct to Kuching, Malaysia. But, for the brokers or Tekong, overland through Entikong is the safest path to smuggle illegal migrant workers to Malaysia, "said Trisakti. Kopbumi noted, every day an average of 500 prospective illegal workers who enter through Entikong.
However, the doors Indonesia-Malaysia border in West Kalimantan not only in Entikong. "There are 13 doors in there, that the average of each of the doors there are 500 people smuggled into Malaysia. Entikong addition, the most popular door is the door in the border area Jagobabang, Bengkayang, because from there to Kuching just two hours, "said Trisakti.
Generally, women who are sold into Sarawak and Kuching used as prostitutes. "Most of them initially lured to work as domestic servants, working in restaurants, and entertainment venues works sort of karaoke, but then were forced to become prostitutes, because they are there left to pimp," said Trisakti. If not, they will be intimidated or tortured, "said Trisakti.
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