Malaysia has a population of only 25, ish, million. No one actually knows because there are many legal but undocumented persons.

In the 1980s, it had a reputation as a centre for child-abuse tourism. It was never as bad as Manila but unlike Manila it was not concentrated in one major city. Indeed, even today, Malaysia struggles with so-called cultural influences that reject the idea of rape of minors. Every time it comes to Parliament, a powerful lobbying group, which also has its own political party with, in the most recent election, a presence in Parliament which gives it a powerful voice, uses its balance-of-power to talk-out legislation on under-age marriage with ministers saying "it's complicated." The complication, when viewed in its most brutal light, is that a "negotiated" marriage between the rapist and the victim retrospectively legitimises that rape - and then allows the abuse to continue under shield of marriage.

There have also been high profile cases of serial paedophiles using Malaysia as a hunting ground, sometime for a number of years.

While all that is true, and there are those that use it to say that Malaysia has a child abuse problem are falling into a trap of being one dimensional, it is far from the whole truth.

Every country has serial paedophiles and it is absolutely wrong to say that Malaysia's problem is bigger that elsewhere.

Every country has pockets of ritualised and / or effectively sanctioned child abuse and Malaysia's is no worse than e.g. the UK.

But these stories are taken, outside Malaysia, as defining the country's attitudes to these problems.

What is rarely reported outside Malaysia are the successes. Malaysia has, in fact, an extremely active child protection team. While reports of trials are rare, reports of arrests for, for example filming child sexual abuse videos, do appear in the media. They are, for the protection of the children, de-personalised, especially where a family member is involved.

Malaysia also has an extremely active team that specialises in the recovery of Malaysian citizens who have been tricked into forced or slave labour overseas.

And at home, a team concentrates on the use of minors, both Malaysian and foreign, in workplaces.

In Malaysia, Bukit Aman is the national police headquarters. It functions as people used to imagine Scotland Yard did before its functions were fragmented.

Bukit Aman is home to Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants unit known as D3. The Unit is primarily an intelligence and investigation unit and works in conjunction with other agencies.

Last week it was announced that D3 and its associates had identified a factory just over an hour outside Kuala Lumpur in a district known for having a large free trade zone. The factory has not, at the time of writing, been publicly identified and whether it is within the free traze zone is not known.

The factory dismantled used electronics and was found to employ 80 illegal foreign workers, paying them RM70 and RM80, far short of the minimum wage of MYR1,500 per month.

The raid was conducted not as an immigration raid but following an investigation into human trafficking. "Five foreign teenagers were rescued under the Act. The victims were two girls from Cambodia and Myanmar, two boys from Myanmar and a Pakistani boy aged between 16 and 17" who had been employed for three months, said a spokesman from d3.