100 prostitutes arrested in Bogor

100 prostitutes arrested in Bogor

BOGOR: About 100 alleged prostitutes were netted in a series
of operations launched separately by the police and the local
administration on Monday and Tuesday night following Saturday's
attacks on a number of hotels and suspected brothels in Cipayung,
part of the Puncak resort area.

The police conducted the raids on street cafes located in the
Parung area on Tuesday night, and arrested some 600 women who
were suspected of being prostitutes.

On Monday and Tuesday night, the Bogor administration launched
a similar operation along Jl. Pajajaran -- near the Hero
supermarket, in front of the PMI (Indonesian Red Cross) hospital,
and around the Kujang monument -- as well as on Jl.Juanda and in
the vicinity of Taman Topi park. A total of 39 women were netted.

The Bogor administration will continue the raids so as to
avoid a repetition of Saturday's disturbances, according to Suhud
Achyadi, who led the operation.

On Saturday, hundreds of vigilantes vandalized a number of
hotels and other buildings in Cipayung, and looted the victims'
belongings. They claimed that they took the law into their own
hands because the police and the authorities had failed to
eliminate prostitution in the area.

The police arrested some 40 people, but 12 of them, who were
students of a Muslim boarding school, were later released. -- JP