Baby Arya flew from Jakarta to Changi Airport in mid-2025 together with a couple posing as his parents. He was one of at least 15 Indonesian newborns trafficked into Singapore by a syndicate that preyed on desperate parents in West Java, offering them up to 20 million rupiah (RM4,790) to surrender their babies.
Wealthy Singaporean adoptive parents paid more than S$20,000 (RM62,900) per child, in defiance of Indonesian law that requires adoption to be free.
