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View all search resultsNational Commission of Human Rights member Hafidz Abbas has decried the involvement of military personnel in the demolition of buildings in the Kalijodo red-light-district in North Jakarta starting on Monday.
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.
In conjunction with the government’s efforts to close down all red-light districts in Indonesia, the Social Affairs Ministry has started listing districts targeted for closure and in so doing has revealed that East Kalimantan is the province with the largest number of prostitution areas.
The closure of the Kalijodo red-light district in North and West Jakarta is just one stage in the government’s ambition to close down all 168 such areas across the country by 2019, as part of its efforts to eradicate prostitution.
A clash between security forces and Kalijododo residents seems unavoidable as the latter has vowed to fight the Jakarta administration’s plan to shut down the red-light-district, saying that many buildings, especially mosques and churches in the area, were built with official land certificates.
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