Vulnerability of Children in the Islands Region to Misuse of Data and Images for Sexual Exploitation in the Online Areas

DOI

10.2991/978-2-38476-325-2_17How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Children; child sexual exploitation; online

Abstract

The rapid development of technology and the use of gadgets have targeted children in remote areas and islands. Children living in island areas are very vulnerable to online sexual exploitation due to lack of knowledge and access to information. Meanwhile, online sexual predators continue to carry out their actions regardless of time and place, so that at any time thousands of data and images of children in the online world can be used and exploited by irresponsible parties which will have a negative impact on children in island areas, due to limited access to complaints, rehabilitation services for victims of online sexual exploitation and the lack of law enforcement officers who are trained to be able to follow up on cases of online sexual exploitation. Therefore, research is needed to see the resources and policies that island areas have in handling complaints and providing rehabilitation for cases of children as victims of sexual exploitation in the online realm with the hope that this can be a recommendation to the government in responding to cases of sexual exploitation in the online realm so that victims can be rehabilitated. The research methodology used is qualitative with an ethnographic approach to determine the influence of technology and communication in people’s daily lives. The findings of this study indicate that lack of knowledge, access to information and supervision from parents triggers children to become victims of online exploitation, in addition to the inability of law enforcement officers to investigate cases of online sexual exploitation making perpetrators “fearless” and resulting in increasing victims. Through this study, the author offers a digital-based government accessible service solution, to ensure speed of service access for victims in the archipelago, initiation of integrated cyber and PPA units at police stations, and strengthening of UPTD PPA related to cyber issues.

Copyright

© 2024 The Author(s)

Open Access

Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

Download article (PDF)

TY  - CONF
AU  - Chairidani Purnamawati
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/12/19
TI  - Vulnerability of Children in the Islands Region to Misuse of Data and Images for Sexual Exploitation in the Online Areas
BT  - Proceedings of the ASEAN Conference on Sexual Exploitation of Children (ACOSEC 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 148
EP  - 157
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-325-2_17
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-325-2_17
ID  - Purnamawati2024
ER  -