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The Missing

The Missing

The Missing

The Missing

Official vows action after AP reports missing migrant girls

By NINIEK KARMINI and KRISTEN GELINEAUDecember 14, 2018 GMT

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian official vowed on Friday to do more to combat human trafficking after an investigation by The Associated Press revealed that scores of trafficked girls have quietly disappeared from one of the nation's poorest regions...

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2016 file photo, the hull of a fishing boat that capsized off the coast of Libya sits outside, at the NATO base in the Sicilian town of Melili, Italy. The story of the fishing boat known as the "peschereccio" and its passengers reflects how migrants can simply vanish worldwide, sometimes without a trace. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli, File)

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In this Oct. 21, 2018, photo, a framed photo of Adelina Sau hangs on the wall of her family's home in Abi village in West Timor, Indonesia. Adelina had been working as a maid for a Malaysian family when a local lawmaker's office received a tip from neighbors who suspected she was being abused. Following her death, an autopsy determined she died of septicemia and cited possible abuse and neglect. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

StoryLost girls of Indonesia among 61k dead and missing migrants

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In this Thursday, April 12, 2018 photo, mortuary workers carry the coffin of an unidentified man for burial at a cemetery outside Johannesburg. At least five bodies of unidentified people are buried on top of each other in each grave. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

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This Oct. 31, 2018 photo shows an undated family photo of Wilmer Gerardo Nunez as a young adult, at his mother's home in the Ciudad Planeta neighborhood of San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Eight years ago, at the age of 35, Nunez left Honduras for the United States, only to disappear in Mexico, leaving his anguished mother in limbo. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

StoryHonduras mother waits for migrant son missing en route to US

In this April 12, 2018 photo, women whose sons went missing look at the shoreline in the town of Ras Jabal, Bizerte, Tunisia. An Associated Press tally has documented at least 56,800 migrants dead or missing worldwide from 2014 to 2018 _ almost double the number found in the world’s only official attempt to count them, by the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

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In this Sept. 2, 2018 photo, 10-year-old Venezuelan Angelis sits in a car with her mother Sandra Cadiz as they get a free ride from a driver to the next city, Lebrija, Colombia, on their journey to Peru. A police officer offered to hail down a ride, and a man in an old boxy Chevrolet Samurai agreed to take them. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

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Ju Dennis, from Liberia, holds his phone with which he filmed his plight through the Sahara after being expelled from Algeria, in an International Organization for Migration transit camp in the northern Nigerien desert city of Arlit on Friday, June 1, 2018. Dennis filmed his deportation with a cell phone he kept hidden on his body. “You’re facing deportation in Algeria _ there is no mercy,” he said. “I want to expose them now... We are here, and we saw what they did. And we got proof.” (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

StoryWalk or die: Algeria strands 13,000 migrants in the Sahara

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A tire used as a road marker hangs from a tree in Niger's Tenere desert region of the south central Sahara on Sunday, June 3, 2018. On the map, it links Algeria’s Mediterranean coast to the distant Atlantic shore in Nigeria. Along the way, however, the Trans-Sahara highway frequently deteriorates from black tar into sand tracks. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

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A migrant who was expelled from Algeria stands in a transit center in Arlit, Niger on Thursday, May, 31, 2018. The International Organization for Migration normally organizes transport home for the men, women and children who have been expelled from Algeria. But with no name, confirmed nationality or family to claim him, the anonymous man was trapped in the compound. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

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