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Auctioning Innocence: How Social Media Fueled Indonesia’s 2025 Cross-Border Baby Trafficking Syndicate

Posted by gwire.news on December 31, 2025 at 23:02

Location: Indonesia

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A harrowing "Reality Audit" reveals that Indonesia’s most vulnerable are being commodified. Traffickers are bypassing the "Legal System" by using Facebook and WhatsApp to auction infants, often for as little as $300.

1. The Poverty Siphon

Desperate mothers, trapped by systemic poverty and the "Debt Artery," are coerced into selling their newborns to "brokers" who pose as adoption agents.

2. Social Media Exploitation

Platforms have become the new "Black Market." Encrypted groups allow traffickers to operate in plain sight, exploiting legal loopholes that make "private adoption" difficult to track.