'No sex business in Monas, please'

'No sex business in Monas, please'

JAKARTA (JP): The city administration has pledged to properly
manage the area around Monas, which is currently disorganized and
has become a hot spot for the sex industry.

Dozens of cafes in the area will be closed down and the area
will also be cleared of street vendors, according to Abdul Kahfi,
deputy governor for administrative affairs.

He alleged that cafes were being used for trading alcohol and
soliciting sex.

"When the economic crisis hit the country (in 1997) we allowed
those cafes to be set up and run by jobless people until the
economy recovered," he said. (04)