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Your letters: Sex workers are 'heroines'
Dubbing sex workers âheroinesâ for their families, Kendal Regent Widya Kandi Susanti in Central Java has refused to close brothels until the state provides alternative jobs for prostitutes
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ubbing sex workers 'heroines' for their families, Kendal Regent Widya Kandi Susanti in Central Java has refused to close brothels until the state provides alternative jobs for prostitutes. Your comments:
This is a good one! Closing brothels only moves prostitution business elsewhere.
Providing alternative (also: more lucrative) sources of income will end (the business) for sure.
Jose Christie
Please be careful with your words, Widya Kandi. You are unwittingly encouraging women to become prostitutes. Do you want your city drifting slowly into the 'little Bangkok of Central Java'? Try to ask Bangkok people how their city turned slowly but surely into the 'sex hub of Asia'.
Such 'modern' civilization values don't bring people into a civilized society.
Tahu
When it's repressed it will be worse. It's better to have legalized and controllable brothels like during Ali Sadikin's era rather than to close them down and have it done secretly. I admire your brave words Ibu ' you are a Muslim woman leader with heart and guts. I hope you will stay strong leading Kendal.
Aiko Urfia
If they close the brothels, the prostitutes will operate in cars, hotels or what have you. You need to realize that the oldest profession will continue to flourish one way or another. Better to have it operate as safely as possible.
Exbrit
May Allah not put you, your daughter and your family in the group of family heroines you mentioned. Be careful in speaking as a leader.
You will be asked about whatever you have said at the end of the world. You are responsible for keeping your people healthy, not only physically but also spiritually.
Do not ruin your family after what happened to your husband, who is in jail because of corruption. Your position as the regent of Kendal will be no longer, I guarantee, but your sins will be written in the world until the end.
Mocha
Oh go Bu Widya! There are too many moralistic yet hypocritical people in Indonesia. Sex service is unavoidable, anyway. It's human nature.
Olivia D Purba
I hope we will hear from more and more regents like Widya Kandi Susanti, who are humane, brave and sensible enough to resist the frequent calls for repression of prostitution from religious leaders and other self-appointed moral overlords.
John Margreaves
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