Dolly Ditutup di Mata Media Asing: "Mayoritas Muslim tapi Prostitusi Beroperasi Bebas"
Most of Indonesia`s People are Muslims but Prostitution Operate Openly in All Major Cities
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
PEMERINTAH Kota (Pemkot) Surabaya resmi menutup kompleks pelacuran terbesar di kota terbesar kedua di Indonesia, Rabu, di tengah protes para pekerja seks komersial (PSK), yang mengatakan Pemkot Surabaya menutup mata pencaharian mereka.
Walikota Surabaya, Tri Rismaharini, mengumumkan penutupan kompleks prostitusi "Dolly" melalui upacara di gedung Islamic Center, yang berjarak sekitar dua kilometer dari lokalisasi Dolly, seperti dilansir Mail Online.
Seorang menteri kabinet dan gubernur Jawa Timur menghadiri upacara, di mana sekitar 100 tokoh lokal menandatangani pernyataan mendukung penutupan salah satu distrik lampu merah terbesar di Asia Tenggara. Sekitar seribu umat Islam berkumpul di Islamic Center untuk mengekspresikan dukungan mereka.
Sementara itu, ratusan PSK dan warga mengecam tindakan tersebut karena menutup pencaharian mereka, dengan memblokir jalan menuju kompleks Dolly untuk memprotes tindakan penutupan.
Pemerintah berencana untuk memberikan uang ´pesangon´ sekitar Rp5 juta kepada sekitar 1.500 PSK untuk membantu mereka memulai hidup baru.
Sebagian besar dari 246 juta penduduk Indonesia adalah Muslim. Namun, praktek prostitusi beroperasi secara terbuka di semua kota besar meskipun ada penentangan dari kaum konservatif Islam, beberapa di antaranya ingin mengganti sistem sekuler di Indonesia dengan ikatan hukum Islam.
Rismaharini, walikota perempuan pertama Surabaya, telah berjanji untuk menutup semua komplek prostitusi di Surabaya.
OFFICIALS officially shut a massive prostitution complex in Indonesia´s second-largest city on Wednesday amid protests by sex workers, who said their livelihoods were being destroyed.
The mayor of Surabaya, Tri Rismaharini, announced the closure of the "Dolly" prostitution complex in a ceremony at the city´s Islamic Center Building, about a mile (two kilometers) away.
A Cabinet minister and the governor of East Java attended the ceremony, where about 100 local figures signed a statement supporting the closure of one of Southeast Asia´s largest red-light districts. About a thousand Muslims rallied at the Islamic Center to express their support.
Meanwhile, hundreds of prostitutes and others who said their livelihoods depend on the sex trade blocked streets leading to the Dolly complex in protest of its closure.
The government plans to provide $425 to each of about 1,500 sex workers to help them start a new life.
Most of Indonesia´s 246 million people are Muslims. However, prostitution rings operate openly in all major cities despite opposition from Islamic conservatives, some of whom want to replace Indonesia´s secular system with one bound by Islamic law.
Rismaharini, the first female mayor of Surabaya, has pledged to close down all brothels in the city.
