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Indonesian court convicts 19 in baby trafficking ring that sent infants to Singapore

Friday, 24 July 2026, 06:18 · 1 min read

An Indonesian court in West Java has convicted 19 members of a trafficking syndicate for procuring and selling at least 34 babies, with at least 12 infants trafficked to adoptive families in Singapore. The ring used fraudulent birth certificates and family documents to facilitate the adoptions, raising questions about oversight failures in both countries. The verdict has intensified an unresolved legal and humanitarian dilemma: whether the children — some now toddlers who have lived most of their lives with Singaporean families — should be returned to Indonesia, where biological parents in many cases have yet to be identified.

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BBC WorldIndonesian babies were trafficked to Singapore. What happens to them now? ↗︎
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