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Prostitution business in Dadap is well-organized: Regent
The prostitution business in the Dadap Cheng In red-light district in Tangerang is well-organized with dozens of women brought in each night to service clients. Each night, operators bring in dozens of women from outside the Dadap area to work as prostitutes, Tangerang regent Ahmed Zaki Iskandar said.
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The situation inside Mutiara Abadi Cafe, a cafe at the Dadap Cheng In red-light district in Kosambi, Tangerang regency on Wednesday. The cafe has dozens of sex workers. (Kompas.com/Andri Donnal Putera)
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he prostitution business in the Dadap Cheng In red-light district in Tangerang is well-organized with dozens of women brought in each night to service clients. Operators bring in dozens of women from outside the Dadap area to work as prostitutes, Tangerang regent Ahmed Zaki Iskandar said.
"Each night there are two buses that transport prostitutes to work in Dadap. We don't know who transports the woman there, we are still investigating," he told thejakartapost.com on Friday.
There are up to 300 sex workers in Dadap but the number is thought to double at night with the arrival of sex workers from outside the area.
Sex workers from the former Kalijodo red-light district in Jakarta have reportedly been moved to Dadap following the official closure of the notorious prostitution area on Monday.
The administration plans to close the area in May and is currently spreading information to local Dadap residents.
The regency had previously announced an allocation of Rp 10 billion to carry out the closure. The administration said they would cooperate with the Social Affairs Ministry and the Jakarta Police to arrange a peaceful closure.
There are currently 78 cafes above the green space owned by state-owned airport operator PT. Angkasa Pura I in Dadap that will be evicted.
The red-light district of Dadap Cheng In, located near Indonesia's main international airport Soekarno-Hatta, was established around 1970. The area had been a fishing village but it had developed into a prostitution area as more outsiders had come to live and work there following the development of the airport, kompas.com reported.
The administration also plans to demolish other illegal buildings that surround the cafes.
There has been no protest or complaint yet from local residents regarding the shutdown plan, Ahmed said, adding that his administration planned to build a mosque, park and a culinary center on the cleared land.
Tangerang regency police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Irman Sugema said that his office had conducted raids in Dadap prior to the initiation of an eviction plan.
Police oversaw the collection of data and religious counseling with Tangerang's social affairs office.
The plan to shut down Dadap is in line with the central government's plan for red-light district free Indonesia by 2019. (rin)
