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View all search resultsComments on other issues: Legalizing prostitution in certain areas
Murder suspect: Police officers escort a man identified as MPS, suspected of the murder suspect of an alleged sex worker at a rented house in Tebet, South Jakarta, during a scene investigation on April 17
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span class="caption">Murder suspect: Police officers escort a man identified as MPS, suspected of the murder suspect of an alleged sex worker at a rented house in Tebet, South Jakarta, during a scene investigation on April 17. JP/Awo
April 28, Online
Jakarta Governor Basuki 'Ahok' Tjahaja Purnama is recommending that the city administration legalize prostitution in certain areas.
Last weekend, the Jakarta Police arrested members of an online prostitution group consisting of a pimp and six sex workers, one of whom was underage and pregnant, in the Kalibata City apartments in South Jakarta.
Your comments:
Is this a kind of joke? What about women's rights?
Rukmanadi Putri
That would put the government of Jakarta in direct confrontation with the Muslim clerics.
At least it would in the Islamic world.
Charles Jarret
He is an Indonesian politician with a realistic and workable solution.
Farmer
It is nice to know that the Indonesian priorities lie with sex and money rather than morals and decency.
TT Avenger
I think it is a good idea. Wake up, brothers and sisters. We need money to build a city, just praying will never build a city.
The government can take the taxes to build the city infrastructure. That's why this country never grows up because the people are too naive.
Faris Saragih
Only if he decides the state-owned apartment complex next door to him will be used as the brothel.
Even in the West it's a great idea in theory, as long as it's not in my backyard. A lot of people who support legalizing prostitution will not support the government using taxpayers' dollars to build a brothel.
A better option would be to have certain hotels that already serve as brothels to pay for a license and pay for inspectors etc.
Weilim
