Jakarta – Two airport babies were adopted by two Indonesian families. After going through the judicial process, those two families can take the baby girls home.
Emira, 18 months old, and Lolita, 2 years old, live in Rumah Peduli Anak Tenaga Kerja Indonesia, or RPA-TKI since they were born. Their mothers are Indonesian migrant workers. The mothers do not want them as a result of unwanted ties and wish to not having more babies. So they came to RPA-TKI and handed over their babies to the house to be cared for.
RPA-TKI is a home that takes care of children of Indonesian migrant workers who are born as a result of rape and sex outside of marriage. The organisation founded in 2009 as a part of BNP2TKI, a national agency that deals with migrant workers. The infants that has been saved are cared for by professional nannies in 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.
Term of “Airport Baby” comes from the phenomenon that happen nowadays in Indonesia. Migrant workers who pregnant or born a child as a caused of rape or else deliberately discard or abandon their babies at the airport, whether it is in Indonesia airport or at the destination airport. Then people found the abandoned babies, saved them and brought them to RPA-TKI’s house. Thus the term airport baby comes from.
There was 11 babies live in the house while I made this news broadcasted in May 2013, and only 5 nannies employed for taking care the babies. Eleven babies were healthy physically. But one boy has physical disabled, named Khaleed. His mother did not want him and tried to abort her fetus by taking medication that stimulate a miscarriage. But her effort does not succeed and the baby was born with disability on his legs, hearing function and brain growth.
The house allows couples who do not or have not had children to adopt the babies for free. But of course with the terms and through the court process.
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