Sexuality #3 : The Sort History Of Indonesia Prostitution

All of us know that the existence of sex workers is already very historic. Almost every civilization of mankind has never been absent from the name of a female entertainer. Many sources mention that the profession of sex workers is a profession that is very old existence. From the time of ancient Egypt until World War II always tucked the story of the life of prostitution.

In Indonesia itself, the existence of prostitution has existed since the time of the kingdom of Majapahit and increasingly spread until the arrival of the invaders to Indonesia. We all know that the existence of prostitution in Indonesia is already openly rejected almost of all classes, ranging from cloaked to class of tie. There is even one story of the history of Indonesian prostitution is closely related to Ir. Soekarno. From the googling, I discovered the historical fact that Mr. Soekarno once empowered professional prostitutes as a solution to rescue village girls from the Japanese army.

"Just as an emergency measure, in order to guard our girls, I intend to use prostitutes in this area, in this way, foreigners can satisfy their desires and preferably the girls are not disturbed," said Sukarno.

In addition, in the struggle for independence, Mr. Soekarno also used prostitution as a meeting place for the movement to fool the Dutch Intel. And to my surprise, in his autobiography was told that he also used the services of sex workers as spies of the Dutch army even though at that time many were opposed. According to Mr. Soekarno, with the ability to seduce these prostitutes can dig a lot of information from the Dutch people who become customers.

From various histories it is evident that the activities of prostitutes contribute, so it is not surprising that prostitutes can be used as a political weapon for those who can not control lust. However, prostitution is still not acceptable with open arms in Indonesia. A lot of refusals here and there are wanting closure of all localization. I also agree, that unregulated localization will create new social problems in society.

Officially, the rule of law about prostitution in our beloved country is still very unclear. The more unclear the regulation of prostitution, the more complex problems arise, especially the social and health problems. More and more problems arise and each year the number of growing prostitutes then the government began to form social agencies, one of them with the establishment of resocialization center. Resocialization is a social welfare system to create better social conditions for people with certain social problems. But unfortunately, prostitutes in resocialization still experience a negative conflict.

In Indonesia there are several centers of resocialization, one of which is located in Semarang named Resos Argorejo. Resos Argorejo established since 1966 is first referred to as the localization of Sri Kuncoro, because it is located on Jalan Sri Kuncoro. But the people around often call it Sunan Kuning localization because in it there is also tomb of Chinese character spreader of Islam known as Sun-Kun-Ing. This localization was once closed and several times moved the location, before finally settling in the area Kalibanteng Semarang to this day. Although Sunan Kuning is not the only localization area in Semarang, it is Sunan Kuning most famous one.

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