Pustaka Ilmiah Universitas Padjadjaran

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Efforts to Overcome Child Commercial Sexual Exploitation Victims in City Tourism Area, Manado

The tourism sector has a significant contribution to the economy of Manado City, North SulawesiProvince. However, on the other hand, it has a negative effect on the increase in the number of child commercial sexual exploitation victims, and aids children into becoming commercial sex workers. However, the Local Government of Manado City, North Sulawesi Province, has made efforts to cope with the child commercial sexual exploitation victims. In connection with the case, this study was designed to analyze the causes of the ineffectiveness of the Local Government efforts in tackling children commercial sexual exploitation victims. The study was conducted in tourism area of Manado City, North Sulawesi Province. The informants involved in this study were divided into two types: experts and non-experts. The informants were determined by using the Opportunistic Sampling, and the sampling is using Snowball Sampling. The results of the study showed that the development of tourism sector has a negative effect on the children in the communities. Efforts made to cope with the child commercial sexual exploitation victims by the local government and relevant parties have proved abortive, due to the limited allocation of budgets and skilled, quality human resources, the lack of harmonious understanding between police with judges and public prosecutors as law apparatus, supervision, protection of victims in solving the cases of child commercial sexual exploitation victims, the implementation of the actioncommittee’s duties and responsibility have been of no effect, the number of obstacles facing them.