Indonesia to shut down all its red-light districts by 2019
 

Indonesia to shut down all its red-light districts by 2019
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Indonesian police have been sweeping the country's red-light districts with raids, in an effort to clamp down on prostitution in the conservative nation.

The government has already come down hard on 68 of these areas, and are working on shutting down the remaining 100 in the next three years, social affairs minister Khofifah Indar Parawansa told the Jakarta Post this week.

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A policeman questions suspected *** workers (L) and a cafe employee (R) detained during a raid in Kalijodo on February 20, 2016.

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Last week, some 6,000 policemen descended on the infamous Kalijodo district in **rth Jakarta — an area that holds about 500 businesses across 1.6 hectares (16,000 square metres) — and raided cafes and brothels there for *******, ***** and *******. They found 9,900 bottles of ******* and 166 packs of condoms. Read more...


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