ONE morning in April last year, Halimah Lim binti Ng Sai approached the Jagoi Babang border crossing in West Kalimantan. One more step and she would have entered Serikin, in the East Malaysian state of Sarawak, with a baby in her arms. The child was to be delivered to a baby trafficker waiting on the other side of the border. Later in court, Halimah admitted she was to be paid Rp3.5 million for the baby.

That morning Indonesian border polic