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The National Police arrested two alleged pimps and two celebrities in an operation targeting a high-class prostitution ring, a police officer said on Friday.

Sr. Comr. Umar Surya Fana, an officer at the National Police'€™s Criminal Investigation Unit (Bareskrim), said that police investigators arrested two pimps and two female celebrities, with the initials NM and PR, at a five-star hotel in Central Jakarta on Thursday evening.

Umar said that clients had been paying between Rp 50 million and US$120 million for three-hour sessions with the two celebrities.

Umar added that that the two pimps were connected with Robby Abbas, who was arrested in May as part of an operation targeting high-class prostitution. He was later sentenced to one year and four months imprisonment.

Your comments:

The police seemed to have done a bit of work in this case. They went undercover! The question is, did the police do it out of a sense of duty or did they do it because they sensed there was money to be made out of it? I'€™d go with the latter.

Have they prosecuted anyone for that 11-months free-oxygen case yet? The next dry season is only a few months away.

And then to classify these '€œconsenting'€ (I stress the word consenting) adults as human trafficking victims just further consolidates their status as one of the dumbest police forces in the world.

If they want to rescue genuine victims of human trafficking I'€™d suggest try Nagoya, Batam. Although most of the girls working there do so by choice, I have no doubt a small minority were probably trafficked into the trade.

This is the oldest profession since time immemorial. So I am not going to take the moral high ground and pass judgement on their chosen profession.

Abu-Abu

'€œUmar said that NM and PR were arrested after they had taken off their clothes to fulfill the legal requirements of charging a person under prostitution laws.'€

This might have been a motivation for all that hard work as well.

Devanagari

Prostitution is said to be the world'€™s oldest profession and it will remain a profession until the end
of time.

It is a matter of supply and demand, as well as being on a willing-buyer willing-seller basis. It is a question of morals until it becomes criminal when women and girls are forced into the trade.

Loh Taun

From another journal, '€œIn Thursday'€™s sting, Ferry and Onat quoted the undercover officer a price of Rp 65 million (US$4,650) for NM and Rp 50 million for PR, for what is referred to in the trade as a '€˜short time'€™, or a three-hour session.

'€œA lawyer for NM confirmed that his client was caught buck-naked in the hotel, but claimed that she was there for a business meeting and had simply been changing her clothes when she was arrested.'€

For the first time on record - an honest lawyer: '€œshe was there for a business meeting'€.

Surprised By Nothing

Sad really: The police will use all the available resources they have and follow this case to the end of the Earth because they know they can extort the clients for large amounts of money to make things quiet.

Meanwhile in Indonesia there are probably thousands of real victims of human trafficking, but nothing will be done to help them.

Jakfan

This police guy said that NM and PR would be considered victims in the case. How cute and sensitive this consideration is for some wannabe '€œselebriti'€ who surely were not forced into those deals by their pimps who are nothing else than agents for the real jobs of those two-bit actresses (cough cough) and singers (cough cough cough).

However '€“ and this confuses me a bit '€“ the same police dude said one line later that NM and PR (those '€œhigh class celebrities'€) were arrested after they had taken off their clothes to fulfill the legal requirements of charging a person under prostitution laws.

So what now? Are they poor and helpless victims (albeit, of course, extremely well-paid ones to maintain their show-off lifestyle) or are they prostitutes?

Gordon Freeman

Just think how much lovely money can be extorted from all the johns, plus they manage to get a brief flash of the high class merchandise as well.

No wonder the going rate for a career with the nation'€™s most corrupt is so high.

Bohong-Bohong

Human trafficking of celebrities? Hardly think so. These high-paid celebrities knew exactly what they were doing and why. To make some quick tax-free cash. Greed, it'€™s all about greed.

Willo1246