Prostitutes opt for resettlement<\/p>\n
BOGOR (JP): Two of three prostitutes who have been regularly
\nnetted in raids against sex workers here agreed on Thursday to
\njoin the government-sponsored transmigration program, an official
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
The other finally opted to seek a business loan from the state
\nemergency fund known as the social safety net program, head of
\nthe Bogor office of social and political affairs, E. Rukanda,
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
According to Rukanda, the three were among the 33 sex workers,
\nincluding five transvestites, netted by a joint operations team
\nof local related officials and students of the Bogor Institute of
\nAgriculture in the early hours of Thursday.<\/p>\n
They were apprehended soliciting business along the major
\nstreets of Jl. Juanda, Jl. Kapten Muslihat and Jl. Pajajaran here
\nby team members posing as their customers.<\/p>\n
The remaining 30 prostitutes were sent directly to a local
\nsocial rehabilitation center in which they were sternly warned to
\nstop trading their bodies and to switch to other professions.<\/p>\n
\"We reminded them that anyone arrested again in the near
\nfuture would be sent to another rehabilitation center out of
\ntown,\" Rukanda said.<\/p>\n
Unlike the other prostitutes, three of the sex workers had
\nbeen arrested many times and given sewing training at a
\nrehabilitation center at Palimanan, Cirebon, about 260 kilometers
\nfrom Bogor.<\/p>\n
\"This time they argued that they had to sell their bodies for
\neconomic reasons. They said they had wanted to start tailoring
\nbusinesses but had no capital,\" Rukanda said.<\/p>\n
He however did not explain where the two women would be placed
\nin the transmigration scheme or the kind of jobs offered to them
\nin their new places of residence.<\/p>\n
The program usually targets the vast virgin forests of
\nKalimantan and Sumatra as the new settlement locales for
\ntransmigrants. (24\/ivy)<\/p>",
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