Pre-Ramadan crackdown: Indonesian police, civil security and army personnel conducting the raid at 'Dolly' in Surabaya. - AFP
SURABAYA: Hundreds of police and soldiers raided a huge red-light district in Indonesia’s second biggest city to close down brothels before the month of Ramadan.
Scuffles briefly broke out between security forces and people protesting the raid Friday in the area known as “Dolly” in Surabaya on Indonesia’s main Java island, where women advertise their services by sitting in brightly-lit shop windows.
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