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Trading Kidneys for Cash

Thirty-year-old Jaya Kurnia, not his real name, recently felt a drastic change in his body. He is not as healthy as he used to be. He gets tired more easily and quickly. Routine physical activity can make him short of breath, as if he had just been running. "If I knew it would be like this, maybe I wouldn't have been willing to do it," said Jaya, interviewed at the Ibun district police headquarters last week.

Jaya's body started to act up after he underwent an operation to remove a kidney last December. Jaya can no longer drive a vehicle all day like he did before the operation. For years, he worked full-time as a bus driver on the Majalaya-Tegallega route in Bandung.

Cover Story Tuesday, February 16, 2016 Edition

The Illegal Kidney Trade

The discovery of a syndicate trading illegally in human kidneys last month is actually nothing new. The perpetrators themselves admit that they have been in the business since 2008, with preliminary police investigations putting the number of trafficking 'victims' at 15. But that estimate is far below what is really going on.

Five so-called 'transactions' a year alone suggests the real figure is closer to 35 transactions over the past seven years, each costing Rp300-400 million. It is also hard to believe that the shadowy business has been confined to only one gang.

Opinion Tuesday, February 16, 2016 Edition

Sidney Jones Executive Director, Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict
Home-Grown Terrorism and ISIS Linkages

Last week's attack in the middle of Jakarta should be seen as a wakeup call for the authorities. We may have been lulled by the six-year hiatus of bombings that were a feature between 2000 and 2009. In reality, however, the signs were all there to see. The comings and goings of radical Islamic elements in and out of Syria, their increasingly assertive campaigns on social media and most recently the discovery of a plot to carry out attacks on Christmas and New Year. The fact that only two fatalities resulted from last week's terror attack should also not be a reason for complacence. Responding to written questions posed by Tempo English, Sidney Jones, executive director of the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict and longtime student of radical Islam in the region, believes that, "We could be in for a period of more intensive terrorist activity."

Cover Story Tuesday, January 19, 2016 Edition

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