Barely Surviving Detention, Abuse, and Neglect of Migrant Children in Indonesia

With its report ‘Barely Surviving,’ HRW explicitly addresses the detention, abuse and neglect of migrant/asylum-seeking children in Indonesia, investigating the trials and tribulations of more than 100 migrants. Child migrants intercepted in Indonesia are usually in transit to Australia.

The New York-based organization reports on ‘routine brutality’ within the local immigration detention facilities, including severe beatings, cigarette burns and subjection to electric shock by guards and other detainees. Most of the children are fleeing persecution, violence or poverty from Afghanistan, Somalia, Sri Lanka, and Burma.

Human Rights Watch 2013

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