THE fuel price hike will bring about an estimated increase of 4.5 million poor people this year. There are an estimated 41.7 million poor people or 21.92 percent of the total Indonesian population. Many fear a drastic increase in human—speficically women and children—trafficking in poor areas, especially in several places which have so far been known as the pockets of Indonesian overseas contract workers (TKI).

Poverty is in part the cause o