JAKARTA: One of Indonesia’s oldest red-light districts was demolished in an operation overseen by hundreds of police and troops, as authorities press on with a plan to close all brothel areas in the Muslim-majority country.
Dozens of illegal bars and brothels along a polluted riverside strip in north Jakarta – known locally as Kalijodo – were reduced to rubble by excavators yesterday.
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