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• Monitor conditions of confinement for all asylum seekers and children in its care in immigration detention facilities, and report issues to the Directorate General of Immigration. • Recognizing resource constraints, and while the government of Indonesia has failed to fulfill its responsibility to provide access to education, expand IOM’s educational programming for children both inside and outside detention. • Continue to work with the government of Indonesia to ensure that unaccompanied migrant children have adequate care, including shelter and access to basic necessities. • Expand translation programs to ensure that asylum seekers have access to adequate translation in the course of their proceedings with UNHCR. To UNICEF • Consider migrant children, including asylum-seeking children and unaccompanied migrant children, as a core element of UNICEF’s programming in Indonesia. Prioritize advocacy that urges the government of Indonesia to end the detention of migrant children. • Support Indonesia in developing appropriate laws and policies to respond to the protection needs of unaccompanied migrant children, including those enumerated by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in its General Comment No. 6. • Run programming and support programming run by others that responds to the protection needs of unaccompanied migrant children, including those enumerated by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in its General Comment No. 6. • Work to ensure that all migrant children in Indonesia, whether detained or not, whether unaccompanied or with their families, have access to education. 85 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | JUNE 2013
Acknowledgments This report was researched by Alice Farmer, researcher, and Kyle Knight, Algrant fellow, in the Children’s Rights Division, in August and September 2012. Alice Farmer wrote the report. The report was edited by Zama Coursen-Neff, director of the Children’s Rights Division; Andreas Harsono and Heather Barr, researchers in the Asia Division; Phelim Kine, deputy director of the Asia Division; Bill Frelick, director of the Refugee Program; Dinah PoKempner, general counsel; and Danielle Haas, senior editor. Beneva Davies and Laura Schulke, associates, and Angeline Tandiono, intern, provided research and production assistance. Grace Choi and Fitzroy Hepkins provided additional production assistance. We are grateful to the individuals who agreed to share their personal stories, as well as all of the officials, service providers, and experts who agreed to be interviewed. We thank all of the organizations and individuals who supported this work, facilitated interviews, and provided invaluable insight. BARELY SURVIVING 86
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