Brothel busted, customers arrested

Brothel busted, customers arrested

JAKARTA (JP): Central Jakarta Police detained 79 prostitutes
along with 21 male customers on Thursday evening during a single
raid at Hotel Paripurna on Jl. Hayam Wuruk.

Following the raid, the police temporarily sealed off the
unrated hotel, which had run a prostitution business with
impunity for years at the back of the three-story building.

Central Jakarta Police detectives chief Maj. Budiono Sandi
said his office had been tipped-off by residents that the three-
story hotel was clandestinely offering prostitutes, operating
under the guise of offering massages.

"We detained them (the girls and their customers) in a bid to
collect more information about this illegal business.

Our main targets are the pimps, the godfather and the hotel
owner," Budiono said.

The police, he said, have already identified four pimps and
the owner of the hotel, known as NS.

"We will nab them tonight."

The prostitutes, mostly still in their early twenties, and the
customers were taken away from rooms, several of them see-through
glass rooms used to exhibit the girls.

Budiono added the raid was conducted as a follow up to the
city's governor instructions last week to close down nightspots
that were being used as venues for prostitution, gambling or drug
use. (01)