Human trafficking law in Malaysia: the incomprehensiveness on the enforcement of the Anti-traffcking In Persons Act 2007 / Roseheda Ramli

• Main Authors: Ramli, Roseheda, Mohd Fahmi, Musfira, Muhammad Asri, Siti Afiqah
• Format: Student Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Crimes against the person; Organ trafficking
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/47107/1/47107.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/47107/

The purpose of this research is to review on the effectiveness of Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act 2007 in its enforcement and the implementation of the Act itself. The objective is to provide an overview and response from the enforcement agencies such as Police, Immigration and other authorities' bodies. Qualitative research method such as semi structured interviews has been conducted throughout this research paper in order to get better views from the expertise on this topic. After collected the statistics from the governmental and non-governmental organizations and analyzed the interview by the expertise, we found out that there is still a lot of numbers of unreported cases on human trafficking in Malaysia. Malaysian government should cooperate with the judiciary and legislative bodies in order to come out with solution to overcome this problem. This can be done by amending and enhancing the enforcement on the current human trafficking law in Malaysia. The non-governmental organizations are recommended to contribute in combating human trafficking by providing adequate programs to create public awareness on human trafficking.