Bulldozers shuffle in to destroy dozens of homes and brothels in Jakarta’s Kalijodo neighbourhood,which will be turned into a parkBulldozers have started demolishing hundreds of buildings in the Indonesian capital’s largest red-light district as piece of a nationwide effort to eradicate prostitution in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation. Jakarta’s Kalijodo, long home to thousands of sex workers, or is the latest of nearly 70 red-light districts shut down in Indonesia. The government wants to shut the remaining around 100 more by 2019.
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Source: theguardian.com