PSK Open BO Through MiChat And On Twitter, Gibran Rakabuming: I Have Reported It To The Police Chief

Mayor of Solo Gibran Rakabuming Raka while reviewing vaccinations at Bung Karno Hospital Solo. (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - Mayor of Solo, Gibran Rakabuming Raka, said that his party has complained about Commercial Sex Workers (CSWs) for capturing customers through an online messaging application.

PSK usually use the Michat or Twitter application. In today's dictionary, online prostitute services are known as open booking out (Open BO). "Yang Michat, I have reported the open bo twitter to the Chief of Police. It needs special mitigation. Yesterday, the Chief of Police (Captured PSK) who was online was a minor," said Gibran as quoted by the Youtube news channel Surakarta, Tuesday, March 16.

The eldest son of President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) added that the eradication of prostitutes in Solo is a form of support for the 100-day program of the National Police Chief, General Listyo Sigit Prabowo.

Before being inaugurated, Gibran did intensively report public complaints about gambling, alcohol and prostitutes. The Surakarta Police Chief, Kombes Ade Safri Simanjuntak responded to this report by regularly holding Community Disease Free Operations (Pekat) in the Surakarta area.

"Before the inauguration, I told the Police Chief that the residents' complaints were like, for example in the Gilingan area the complaints were like this, in Kestalan-Banjarsari complaints like this. This complaint was immediately responded to by the Police Chief,"

Concentrated includes gambling, liquor (alcohol) to Commercial Sex Workers (CSWs). In particular, Gibran praised the Chief of Police, Kombes Ade Safri Simanjuntak, for his persistence in holding pekat.

"The Chief of Police doesn't have any rest! I really salute him, every day there is no rest, he is diligent," said Gibran. For information, members of the Surakarta City Police and their staffs arrested and investigated 36 female commercial sex workers (CSWs).

The community disease operation (Pekat) was carried out in two locations in the Solo area, namely Kestalan and Gilingan, Banjarsari, Solo, on Saturday, February 27 evening.

"36 female sex workers are being checked for identity and there will be guidance at the Panti Karya Wanita Laweyan Solo. The majority of them are from residents outside Solo, some from Sukoharjo, Semarang, and the Madura e-KTP," said Surakarta Police Chief Kombes Ade Safri Sim Continak in Solo. reported by Antara, Sunday, February 28.

In particular, the Head of Police, Ade Safri, expressed his gratitude for the intense activity for receiving support from the Mayor of Surakarta, Gibran Rakabuming Raka. The mayor of Surakarta, who was traveling to monitor the city of Surakarta, took the time to stop by to provide support for this intense operation.

The Mayor of Surakarta, Gibran Rakabuming and his entourage went to the security gathering point, and immediately asked if any Solo residents were involved. Residents who are secured in the operation will be nurtured. The police chief explained that in the Kestalan Banjarsari area, the officers managed to secure 17 prostitutes on the streets. Then proceed to the Gilingan bus terminal area as many as 19 prostitutes who were secured. Total 36 people.

The 36 detained prostitutes were taken to the Surakarta Police Headquarters for identity checks and then coaching was carried out to be handed over to the Laweyan Solo Women's Home.

The police chief explained that the Surakarta Police and the police in his ranks carried out concentrated operations covering women in street prostitution, gambling, and liquor which was carried out in the Solo area.