One factor high incidence of trafficking of women in general, due to the
promised high-paying jobs outside the area, with the female victims are teens who
want to find work. Where, cases of trafficking in persons, especially women who
are not humane, the practice of selling a woman from one agent to the next agent.
More and more agents are involved, the more posts that will be paid by women,
so that their salary was drained by the agents. This phenomenon should be
anticipated that such a network can be eradicated and the chain decided through
Law No. 21 Year 2007 on Combating the Crime of Trafficking in Persons by first
disseminated so that people understand, especially women.
This study aims to determine the legal protection of women victims of
trafficking and to identify obstacles encountered in providing legal protection for
victims of trafficking. The data obtained in the research literature as well as the
field is processed and analyzed in a qualitative way, that the analysis of the data
based on what was obtained from the literature and the field, either orally or in
writing, and directed, discussed and given an explanation with applicable
regulations, and concluded with the inductive method, ie draw conclusions from
the particular to the general.
Conclusion of the study that, the legal protection of women trafficking
victims in various ways adapted to the complexity of the crime itself which
includes: pre-emptive efforts, preventive, and rehabilitative repressive.
Constraints faced in providing legal protection to women victims of trafficking
include legal constraints,. Other obstacles include victims of trafficking of women
and children come from several factors, including: an increase in demand for
migrant workers, the development of an international trafficking network, there
still exists the policies that are discriminatory, inadequate quality and quantity of
law enforcement, lack of awareness of the law people (victims, families and
government officials).