This is the moment a newborn baby girl was found alive after being dumped in a pile of rubbish

This is the moment an abandoned newborn girl was found alive after being dumped on a garbage heap in Indonesia.

The girl was found by a resident as she was returning from the rice fields at Sungai Raya Village in Kubu Raya Regency on Tuesday morning.

The cries of the baby caught the attention of the woman and she hastened to report the finding to the local authorities.

Officials arrived to inspect the garbage bag and found inside a crying child still engulfed in blood and pieces of placenta.

It is believed that she was left there shortly after the mother gave birth and police believe she was less than 12 hours old when they found her.

Deputy Inspector Ade, Kubu Raya police chief of public information, said: “Residents found the baby alive here.” They wrapped it in a black plastic bag and threw it in the trash.

‘She was still alive, so they took her to the hospital, where the nurses are taking care of her. She is very lucky. I don’t think she would have survived if the resident hadn’t found her.

The policeman added that this is the sixth case of abandonment in the Kubu Raya Regency in recent months.

The abandoned newborn has been transferred to the Nabasa Maternity Hospital for treatment and monitoring. She will then be placed in the care of the state.

Ade said: ‘We are still conducting an investigation to find out who dumped the innocent baby here. He was still very young, perhaps only a few hours, but no more than half a day.

“We ask neighbors who have information to help us by reporting to the police so that this case can be resolved quickly. They may have seen someone in the area earlier that morning.

Kaya Raya is a regency, administrative division, of West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

The larger province is part of the island of Borneo, the largest island in Asia.

It is politically divided between Malaysia and Brunei in the north and Indonesia in the south.

Although female infanticide is less common in Indonesia than in other countries on the mainland, the country is still working hard to reduce infant mortality rates caused by other factors.

a 2020 unicef ​​report revealed the efforts made by the state to improve birth registration in recent decades, allowing children to access social services and live a good life.

However, around 90% of children, especially girls and women, experience some form of poverty during their lives, the report noted.

The OECD noted that women “are poorer throughout the life cycle and face disadvantages in school and, especially, in employment.”