People living with AIDS in Papua, Indonesia may soon have a microchip implanted into their bodies so that the government can monitor their movements.

Basically, lawmakers want to keep an eye on people infected with AIDS, to be able to track them in the Indonesian province of Papua. The idea behind this is to protect healthy people from contracting HIV from them, as the virus spreads through sexual intercourse.

Therefore, any person who has AIDS and is sexually active will have to be fitted with a chip. "It's a simple technology. A signal from the microchip will track their movements and this will be received by monitoring authorities," lawmaker John Manangsang said.

If people living with the disease infect someone on purpose, they will face jail and a $5,000 fine.

The bill hasn’t been passed yet. And maybe it will not be passed, since it violates the human rights, said Constan Karma, the head of Papua's National AIDS Commission.

According to a study carried out by the government, the number of HIV/AIDS cases per 100,000 people in Papua is almost 20 times the national average in the country. High incidence of promiscuity, poor education regarding the deadly disease, the inadequate supply of condoms, as well as wife swap among some Papuan tribes - a practice that involves exchanging partners - are the explanation for the desperate situation.

Worldwide, about 33.2 million people lived with AIDS in 2007. In the same year, the pandemic killed an estimated 2.1 million people, 330,000 children counting among them.