After Being Hit By A Raid On Sex Workers And Transgender Women Were Trained To Be Tailors And Chefs By The West Jakarta City Government

Kasatpel of the Social Service Sub-District of Grogol Petamburan, Samatrin/Photo: Antara

JAKARTA - The West Jakarta City Government will train four commercial sex workers (CSWs) and two trans women who were caught in the Grogol Petamburan area to become cooks or chefs and tailors. one year. "There are skills activities to support their lives after they are trained, such as sewing, catering," said the Head of the Social Service Sub-District of Grogol Petamburan, Samatrin, when met at the Grogol Petamburan sub-district office, Wednesday evening. This is done so that they and all other residents of the social institution can get skills capital. So that after leaving the social institution, they already have the capital to open a business or work in other fields. Not only skills, they will also be provided with spiritual strengthening knowledge by the social institution. With these efforts, Samatrin hopes that those who leave the social institution will not return to the streets and disturb the comfort of the community.

Previously, the West Jakarta Civil Service Police Unit (Satpol PP) officers arrested four people suspected of being sex workers and two trans women in the Grogol Petamburan area, Wednesday night. Kali Sekertaris, Tubagus Angke, and Latumenten. "We reached six people consisting of sex workers and trans women tonight," said West Jakarta Satpol PP Head of Peace, Public Order and Operations, Ivand Sigiro when met during the raid. Officers arrested the suspect. sex workers and trans women while hanging out along the street. When the officers were arrested, some of them did not fight back and ran away, and went into hiding. Ivand said that this activity was carried out in the context of operations against community diseases consisting of people with social welfare problems.