Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama is recommending that the city administration legalize prostitution in certain areas…
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“Legalizing a prostitution site would be a solution because no matter how hard we try, we will never be able to eradicate prostitution. It will always exist as long as humans exist.”
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Ahok’s proposal makes an interesting contrast to the approach of Indonesia’s second-largest city, Surabaya, where the mayor last year ordered the shut-down of one of the oldest prostitution zones. the Doly district.
But rather than debate the different approaches, how about the way it’s reported.
The Jakarta Post accurately notes that the hooker industry operates in plain sight and in various places across the city.
But then it offers a somewhat selective snapshot of these ‘various places,’ naming three here in Jakarta and one in Bandung.
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There are several illegal red-light districts in Jakarta, including Kalijodo in West Jakarta, Boker in East Jakarta and Bongkaran in Tanah Abang, Central Jakarta.
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- Well, Kali Jodo would be quite a site, or sight, if properly developed, using its potentially picturesque waterside location.
- But Ahok himself has threatened to have it erased.
- However, as constituted at present, it is certainly not upmarket, though its little bars do serve a decent beer at a decent price. I know at least one expat who likes to drop by entirely for that reason.
- I’ve no info on the other two areas, but suspect they too cater for the low end of the market.
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- Hence I am moved to ask why the JP doesn’t name (and shame?) most of the upmarket hotels, 5-star variety, where slappers swarm, especially on ladies’ nights.
- After 10pm, when they weary of their Blok M endeavours, they arrive in droves, and those hotels are awash with rich foreigners…
- ….and even the occasional Islamist fanatic party functionary, like the one who became a headline last year!
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Blok M’s Jalan Falatehan
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- Nor is the intrepid reporter even seemingly aware of Blok M, where many, if not most, bars on Jalan Falatehan teem with kupu2 malam, ‘night butterflies, ‘ who aim to ensnare a moneyed expat.
- Not all expats here are moneyed by any stretch of the imagination, but in the eyes of the butterflies,and certainly compared to the poor local patrons at Kali Jodo, every foreigner is fairly affluent.
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- Nor is there any mention of Jalan Jaksa, a somewhat pale shadow of the night-life hub it was ten to fifteen years ago, but nevertheless a centre for back-packer budget travellers and the less affluent resident aliens, and thus for less avaricious girls on the make.
- It used to be a lot of fun, but is now being gentrified…boring, yeah?
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- If Ahok is serious in his aim to limit prostitution to one official centre, is he going to tackle what happens on those seamy, steamy streets, or in the expensive bars of those glitzy hotels?
- Doesn’t sound like it.
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- We see on our tv news, from time to time, ridiculous razia (raids) by SatPol PP civic militia, dragging hapless young (or not so young) ladies off on their trucks.
- But never yet have I heard of a raid on the fancy haunts of five-star tourists and businessmen.
He suggested that the city administration provide one apartment building as a prostitution site where visitors would need to provide identification…
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Bajaj- ======================
For a city of between ten and twenty million souls? Queues stretching a mile and a half down the road outside, where irate wives and girl-friends could cruise by in bajaj to spot errant menfolk and hand-bag them?
Methinks our good Governor underestimates the L.Q. of the populace!
But Lust Quotient or not, methinks in reality that Ahok is not expecting to get too far with this scheme.
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- “I understand that this idea would be impossible to implement, especially in our country where everyone claims to be pure from sin. But if anyone has a better idea, I would like to hear it,” Ahok said.
- Aaah, at least he’s not lost his sense of humour!
- And I do wonder if he’s floated this idea simply to annoy the IslamoNazi element, who hate him because he is not only a plain-speaker but also a Christian and an ethnic Chinese.
- The white-shirt thugs of the ‘Islam Defenders Front’ are still mounting weekly demos to protest his presence in City Hall, so perhaps Ahok’s other words were meant as a jibe at their twisted view of women.
- Ahok said that the city would also give “religious guidance” to the sex workers…
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If that’s the plan, let’s hope the city would make sure that the ‘religious guidance‘ would be ‘given’ by decent people – not foul fanatics.
I still shudder at the way West Java Police handed over defenceless children to rabid sectarians for ‘spiritual guidance!’Muslim School Burned by Angry Crowd – Police Enlist IslamoNazis to Counsel Kids!
As the old song has it, best be leavin’ well enough alone!
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http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/04/28/ahok-suggests-legalizing-prostitution-certain-areas.html
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Kenneth Coles 13:02 on December 18, 2015 Permalink |
Bloody brilliant! It riles me that they would even have a special day for that lot.
I remember Vietnamese refugees, and the East Europeans before them, all or mostly happy to become Australian.
Now we get these stinkers who point-blank refuse to leave their filthy FGM and child marriage customs behind when they move to countries where they’re expected to live like human beings and not animals.
And now they betray us and join ISIS?
You are right, put them down or put them out.
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