Eradicating Community Diseases In Solo, Gibran Cleaned Up Prostitutes And Gambling

Wali Kota Solo Gibran Rakabuming (Instagram / @ gibran_rakabuming)

JAKARTA - The Mayor of Solo, Gibran Rakabuming Raka, supports the operation to eradicate community diseases (concentrated) held by the Surakarta Police. This was followed by many citizen reports regarding troubling social problems, such as prostitution and gambling.

"A lot of complaints from the public have come to me. This is very important and we have to clean it up, not only the prostitutes (commercial sex workers), I will also eradicate the competition," Gibran told reporters, Thursday, March 4.

It is known that Gibran had discussed the eradication of community diseases in Solo during the last campaign. A day after he and Teguh Prakosa became Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Solo, last Friday, March 26, Gibran immediately proved his statement.

He went directly to monitoring the concentrated operations in Gilingan and Kestalan with the Surakarta Police Chief, Kombes Pol Ade Safri Simanjuntak.

During the operation 36 CSWs were successfully secured. In the next operation, Tuesday night, March 2, the police officers managed to dispossess 10 prostitutes and then handed them over to the Wanodyatama Women's Social Service Center, Jongke, Laweyan Solo.

The eldest son of President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) emphasized that the thick operation carried out with the police was not only targeting prostitution. But also other concentrations, including gambling.

"As long as I blusukan before and after the campaign, many complained about it. But there was never a follow up," concluded Gibran.

Previously, Gibran had ordered the Solo City Government (Pemkot) together with the Solo Police to immediately raid the massive online prostitution on social media. This follows up on public information after the joint raid of community diseases (concentrated) in Kestalan and Gilingan.

"Yesterday, it was the first intense operation with the Solo Police. Then there are more inputs on Twitter and Michat. We will trace them and trace them one by one, ”said Gibran, Monday, March 1.