14 held for selling aphrodisiac and pornography
14 held for selling aphrodisiac and pornography
JAKARTA (JP): City police have declared war against sex
businesses with the arrest of 10 aphrodisiac traders in the
Kramat Tunggak redlight district and another four people for
selling pornographic goods in Senen in a raid on the weekend.
"This is part of our concerted effort to protect the younger
generation from moral degradation," City Police Chief Maj. Gen.
Mochammad Hindarto said yesterday.
The two-star general said the weekend's raids, conducted three
days after the arrest of the pimp Hartono, were conducted by two
teams of detectives from the city police headquarters.
During the sweeping operation police confiscated 52 kinds of
aphrodisiacs packed in 640 bottles and 32 pills, several
pornographic magazines, mimeographed dirty storybooks, cards,
stickers and 16 porn video cassettes.
In a raid on an aphrodisiac drug store in Senen, police also
seized dozens of sex contraptions, including sex dolls and penis
and vagina like toys
"We will continue the operation until the producers are
arrested because we believe some of the stuff is produced by
local companies," Hindarto said.
He also said that the traders will be brought to court because
they have violated the law by selling aphrodisiacs not registered
with the Ministry of Health and distributing illegal pornographic
items.
Reports
Before the operation, police received reports from the public
that pornographic magazines were being freely sold at Block E of
the city owned Senen marketplace to buyers including adolescents.
Police also received reports that aphrodisiac traders around
the Kramat Tunggak, the only authorized redlight district in the
city, in North Jakarta sold sex paraphernalia which was not
registered with the Ministry of Health.
Based on the tip-off, a team of officers headed by Capt. Iwan
Rahmansyah, chief of the mobile detective unit at the city police
headquarters, stormed the stands used by the traders as they
closed up at 4 a.m.
Police caught four traders red-handed.
During interrogation, the suspects said they had run the
business in hope of big profits.
A pack of pornographic cards sold for Rp 4,000, magazines for
Rp 10,000 each, mimeographed porno-storybooks for Rp 1,000,
video-cassettes at Rp 10,000 while stickers fetched Rp 2,000.
According to the criminal code's chapter 282, the suspects can
be sentenced to nine months in jail in found guilty
At 9 p.m. on the same day, another group of detectives headed
by Maj. Noenang Kohar SM, chief of the drug unit, rushed to the
Kramat Tunggak redlight district in North Jakarta and confiscated
various aphrodisiacs being flogged by traders from carts in front
of the complex. Ten people were arrested in the Kramat Tunggak's
raid. (jsk)