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98 unmarried pairs netted in Jakarta police raid

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Jakarta – The police, in cooperation with local informal figures, raided a number of hotels in West Jakarta at dawn on Sunday and netted 35 unmarried pairs of youths.

The unmarried pairs and the hotels's on-duty managers were escorted to the Tambora Police for questioning.

Tambora Police chief Comr. Deddy Tabrani said that all the unmarried pairs and the hotels' on-duty managers were questioned and reprimanded. "The raid was carried out to detect and prevent prostitution in hotels in the municipality," tribunnews.com quoted him as saying

The police also arrested 63 pairs of young people in hotels and entertainment centers in Tamansari, West Jakarta.

The police have begun cracking down on prostitution in the city following the killing of a girl who was believed to have been employed as a sex worker in her boarding house in Tebet, South Jakarta.

Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama recently said that he was considering setting up a red-light district in the city to prevent sex workers from conducting work in hotels, entertainment centers and boarding houses. He further said that it was impossible to eliminate prostitution in the capital city. (rms)

Source: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/04/26/98-unmarried-pairs-netted-jakarta-police-raid.html.