Been Sleeped And Offered To Become A Prostitute, Underage Girl Chooses To Report To Police, 5 Pimps Arrested

JAKARTA - The South Jakarta Metro Police have again uncovered cases of child exploitation at the Kalibata City Apartment, Pancoran, South Jakarta. Five people who carried out obscenity and acted as pimps were arrested by the officers.

Head of Criminal Investigation Unit of the South Jakarta Metro Police, Kompol Ahmad Akbar said the five perpetrators were ASJ (19), FH (19), AM (36), CA (25), and DA (19).

"This case was revealed after reports of DE victims along with two other victims, ZR (16) and RCL (16). Five perpetrators besides having sex with the victim also offered to act as prostitutes," said Kompol Akbar, quoted from PMJnews, Tuesday, October 12.

Akbar explained, the five suspects have been exploiting since mid-September 2021. The modus operandi of the perpetrators is ASJ, FH and DA selling victims with Open BO through Michat. AM as a broker provides apartments and CA is in charge of pick-up and drop-off.

"This prostitution practice is disguised by using an online site as a transaction medium to create an account on MiChat with the account name Daun Muda," he said.

For their actions, the perpetrators were subject to Article 88 of the Republic of Indonesia Law No. 35 of 2014 concerning Child Protection with a threat of 10 years in prison, Article 296 of the Criminal Code on Conducting/Easing Obscene Acts with a penalty of one year and four months, and Article 506 of the Criminal Code concerning Pimps.