People who have traveled to Indonesia know that there are many tourist attractions in Indonesia, and the scenery is beautiful, but if you pay a little attention, you can see that in Indonesia's scenic areas, hotels, bars, and many restaurants, there are a lot of out-of-the-box women on the side of the road who are desperately pulling, in fact, these women are prostitutes.
This is a prostitute pervasive, a little careless will be pulled to the side of the road, negotiate the price, you can engage in their "service" work, so a lot of people who travel to Indonesia should pay attention, when staying in the hotel, pay more attention, there will be women pushing the door to enter immediately, ask you if you want service?
With a population of 266 million, Indonesia is the world's fourth most populous country and is a proper giant presence in Southeast Asia. In the booming customs industry in Southeast Asia, Indonesia can only rank behind Thailand and the Philippines, and it is much inferior in fame. However, with its huge demographic advantage, Indonesia's customs industry still has a large scale, and has a good upward momentum in recent years, and has become an emerging tourist destination visited by many people. Today, let's talk about the customs and industries in this country.
The earliest record of Indonesian customs is more than a thousand years ago, equivalent to the Tang Dynasty on the mainland, when there were some prostitutes in the Ican area of Java. For a long time, however, the development of customs was relatively slow, and this continued until the Dutch colonial period. At that time, many local women began to serve the colonists for economic motivation. By the 1850s, the Dutch had become more regulated with local customs and customs, and began to conduct regular health checks and issue licenses to prostitutes.
The original intention of the Dutch was to restrict the development of the customs industry, because this ancient industry was condemned by public morality, which made the Dutch feel pressured. However, this did not work much. In the late 19th century, Indonesia's customs industry grew rapidly. In the World War II icon, Indonesian women were also persecuted by the Japanese invaders, after the end of the war, many rural women were forced to make a living, became sex workers, coupled with the high divorce rate at that time, increased demand, so that the custom industry once again ushered in a period of rapid development.
Today, the number of prostitutes in Indonesia has exceeded 220,000, which is a huge scale of the development of the custom industry itself. This is mainly because Indonesian law stipulates that the custom industry is only a "crime that endangers dignity and morality", and the punishment is not serious, and this relatively tolerant attitude towards the custom industry has caused a huge scale of the custom industry, which has a great similarity with the attitude of Southeast Asian countries to the custom industry.
The main reason for the employment of sex workers in Indonesia is that they have been forced to join because of economic pressures, and many have been forced to become sex workers because of trafficking. There are many women among them, who were sold to traffickers by their families at a lower price when they were very young, and unfortunately entered the customs industry. In addition, another important reason for Indonesian prostitutes to enter the customs industry is that they value the earning power of the job. The price range of services in Indonesia's custom industry is very large, as little as only 1 US dollar, while the high-end prostitute service costs up to 350 US dollars, and they can earn 2000-3000 US dollars per month, which is undoubtedly very attractive.
Indonesian customs exist in various forms, brothels, massage parlors, dance halls, etc. are common customs places, many sex workers are working in brothels, many large brothels, the number of employees exceeds 200 people, of course, more or more small brothels with only a few people. Traditional street prostitutes are also common, and many people nowadays look for potential customers through the Internet. In recent years, freelance prostitutes have become very popular in Indonesia, generally dressed as university students, attracting customers during the day and working in bars at night.
Behind the prosperity of customs and industry, there are many unknown sins and bitterness. In the Indonesian customs industry, more than one-third of the practitioners are very young, some have entered the customs industry in their teens, their lives have just begun, they are left and right, and they can only face the dark life of the future. As a result, Indonesia has tightened controls on customs in recent years, closing 122 red-light districts and repatriating about 20,000 sex workers since 2014.
While strictly controlling the customs industry, Indonesia also takes into account the survival of prostitutes who have lost their means of livelihood, ensuring that they can have basic living security after they lose their jobs. To this end, does Indonesia provide shelter for many former sex workers and provide them with skills training so that they can survive independently? Many former brothels have been used effectively and have been directly converted into handicraft factories and other facilities, thus creating a source of income for former sex workers to restore their dignity. However, it is still very difficult to completely and effectively curb the momentum of the custom industry.
