Online Prostitution Involving Children Have The Same Pattern, Komnas Perempuan Urges Metro Police To Do This

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JAKARTA - Komnas Perempuan responded to the raid on the location of online prostitution conducted by the Directorate of Criminal Investigation of the Metro Jaya Police, the low-cost hotel Oyo Townhouse, Jalan Salemba Raya, Senen District, Central Jakarta, Monday, August 10.

In this case, the police detained 11 people including a young commercial sex worker (PSK).

Komnas Perempuan chairman Andi Yentriyani assessed that online prostitution involving minors often occurs in Jakarta. This problem keeps spinning in the same pattern. Only children were picked up during raids while users were not. This should be a serious concern of the police.

"Children's online prostitution has been repeated and the problem is not just one factor. It's not just because teenagers are consumptive and promiscuous. But the problem is its use," Andi Yentriyani told VOI, Friday, August 13.

Andi Yentriyani gave an example, usually in the raid process only children (sex workers) are caught, while the perpetrators or users are not.

"It's always the child who prioritizes. We have to give more attention to who these users are? What is the user profile like? So that we can make better interventions," he explained.

The police, government and child observers must look at the social aspect to build emphasis on users of online prostitution services. Komnas Perempuan, emphasized Andi Yentriyani, focuses more on intervention towards users, not children (service sellers).

"They, according to the child protection law, will be rehabilitated. But it's just a cycle. Our intervention is not optimal, there should be another way. Now another way that we can prevent is who the users are. Because they violate the law," said Andy.

Andi Yentriyani further said that in the case of child prostitution, it was actually a crime of sexual exploitation.

"According to the child protection law, they shouldn't be allowed to. Child prostitution is actually sexual exploitation in the child protection law. I think it's time for us to profile users (sexual services) so they can intervene," he said.