Minors Forced By Their Lovers To Serve Men With Nostrils With A Tariff Of IDR 300 Thousand In Cengkareng Apartments

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JAKARTA The disclosure of online prostitution cases in an apartment in the Cengkareng area, West Jakarta has opened a new way to uncover exploitation of underage girls.

The Head of Cengkareng Police, Kompol Hasoloan Situmorang, explained that initially he received reports from residents regarding online prostitution in an apartment in Cengkareng. After an investigation was carried out, a woman with the initials C was arrested aged 17.

After being questioned, C admitted that he was forced by his girlfriend, MAH (18) to serve a masher in an apartment.

Hasoloan said the modus operandi of the perpetrators was to offer victims through the Michat application and open the Booking Order (BO) at a rate of Rp. 200-300 thousand.

"The suspect created an account. Creating a social media account, to offer victims to people to do BO," Hasoloan told reporters at the Cengkareng Police, West Jakarta, Wednesday, July 3.

"Then for one date, around Rp. 200 thousand or Rp. 300 thousand is offered," he added.

MAH is not alone, he and MR (20) peddle C to a masher through the Michat application.

From this arrest, the police confiscated a number of evidences in the form of contraceptives up to three cellphones.

The two perpetrators have been named as suspects and charged with Article 76 i jo 88 of the Republic of Indonesia Law Number 35 of 2014 concerning amendments to Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 23 of 2002 concerning child protection.

"The perpetrator is threatened with a sentence of 10 years in prison," he concluded