ABSTRACT
This chapter explores a community-based program to combat the trafficking of children in Indonesia. It outlines Save the Children's community development activities within the Enabling Communities to Combat Child Trafficking through Education (ENABLE) program to prevent the trafficking of children in the four Indonesian districts of East Java, West Java, Central Java and West Kalimantan, between January 2005 and June 2009. The chapter examines how the community-based child protection program, with the essential support of local non-government organisations networks, was successful in improving the educational and vocational opportunities for children at risk of becoming involved in trafficking, and in socialising communities to the dangers of undocumented migration. It describes the methodology utilised to review the ENABLE program and the rationale for the approach taken. The chapter highlights the profound differences between the grass root participatory model and an explicitly invasive model which fell significantly short in upholding the rights of the children involved.
