Pimps directing votes

Pimps directing votes

UJUNGPANDANG, South Sulawesi: Pimps are beginning to direct
the votes of prostitutes, an activist here said.

"We have information that sex workers are being geared to vote
for a certain party," Lily Yulianty Farid of the South Sulawesi
Forum of Women said.

"This would clearly be a violation of their political rights,"
she said on Sunday on the sidelines of talks held by the
Coalition of Indonesian Women for Justice and Democracy. She
added her forum was still checking the reports.

The deputy secretary-general of the coalition's East Indonesia
chapter, Zohra Andi Baso, said so far parties have not offered a
clear concept on eradication of gender inequality. (27)