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Indonesia Indonesia set two commissioners at the Commission Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children of Asean. Both served care issues of child rights and women, both inside and outside the country.

"ACWC a new device that handles the issue of Asean Human Rights of Women and Children," said one commissioner, Ahmad Taufik Damanik in conversation with AFP, Medan, Tuesday (16/3/2010).

Besides Taufik, an Indonesian representative of the other Kalibonso Rita Serena. The two commissioners are included in the body of Asean Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC).

Both will be sworn in with the commissioner of the state
Other Asean at the Asean summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, next April.

"In the next three years, these institutions are mandated to establish a child rights monitoring system in Southeast Asia and penangananan sensitive issues," he explained.

These sensitive issues such as child trafficking between the countries, such as in the regional Mekong namely Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar, and between Indonesia and Malaysia and Singapore.

"The issue of child recruitment into armies or involved in armed conflict, also important in Mindanao, southern Philippines. The case is similar in southern Thailand and
Myanmar, "he said.