Postgraduate Presentation at CDU

The Faculty of Law, Education, Business and Arts invites you to an oral presentation by Postgraduate Student

Asriana Kebon
School of Creative Arts and Humanities

Thursday 5th April, 2012 at 12.30pm

“The socio-economics of people smuggling and human trafficking at the grassroots level in Indonesia”

Globalisation has transformed the world; we are currently experiencing one of the greatest migrations of people in history. Population movements, both legal and illegal are impacting on Australia and neighbouring Indonesia with increasing significance. This movement of population includes legal migration, people smuggling and human trafficking. Human trafficking in Indonesia has experienced a 30% rise on a yearly basis whereas people smuggling has seen a significant rise since its resurgence in late 2008. There have been numerous campaigns executed by Government agencies and NGOs as well as research conducted into the field of people smuggling and human trafficking however these campaigns and research are targeted at the asylum seekers and criminal syndicate organisers. This research project aims to document the socio-cultural aspects of people smuggling and human trafficking at the grassroots level in Indonesia as well as the overlap between the two crime types. Finally an analysis of the socio-cultural factors will be presented to provide insight into why Indonesian’s from remote impoverished communities become enticed into people smuggling and human trafficking ventures

BIOSKETCH
Asriana Kebon is a PhD Candidate. Asriana has previously completed a Bachelor degree with honours at Charles Darwin University. She is a NAATI qualified translator and has worked in Indonesia as a language and culture consultant for the private sector and law enforcement agencies.