A Little Bit of Sex Might Do Surabaya A Lot of Good
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Sparkling Surabaya is a new vision that the local authorities have conceived, and it aims at encouraging tourism in Surabaya to develop. Bearing that in mind, then it is apparent that marketing the city is something everyone should consider. However, even the dumbest of people can understand that marketing the city by taking using prostitution as packaging is a sensitive issue. It would even put shame on some people’s faces; and if we force the idea, we can expect a great deal of friction with religious parties, and other humanitarian organizations. But that is no reason to turn our backs on Dolly! One solution to take advantage of Dolly’s potential is to rehabilitate the red-light district, but retain its reputation as a red-light district, and market it as a sex-tourism district. Before you get me wrong, what I meant was to promote Dolly as a former red-light district (not promoting the fact that Dolly is a red-light district!), just like Amsterdam’s notorious de Wallen area. Imagine the amount of credit Surabaya’s city government will get if they succeed in rehabilitating Dolly as did the Amsterdam city government de Wallen (Jawa Pos 5th & 6th February 2008)! Can readers imagine a red-light Fashion District instead of an actual red-light District? The creative industry sector is the most suitable agent-of-change (in my opinion). The existence of art galleries will certainly be more appreciated compared to sex and a few cafes.
We should keep in mind that even if Dolly can be fully rehabilitated, the project will not totally wipe out prostitution. This idea is also not an overnight miracle stuff. But at least this idea can present a reflecting point; that even something that society has deemed as rotten and hopeless can become something good, just like the ugly caterpillar becoming a beautiful butterfly.
geeez…. where are the photographs! photographs! photographs!
hmmm…. Great! Nanda, I think you should attach pictures, special on this article!
wikipedia: gang dolly (in indonesian)
http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_Dolly
waaaaa… finally you’ve written something about this particular site you’ve been mentioning so much about :p done well this time… salut!
Ive found this article while searching for dolly revitalization. thanks, very useful. Nice to know you all people!
thats right, i agree with you that this revitalization program should be held as soon as possible!
Hear ye hear ye…I discussed this issue with one of the staffs in the Surabaya City Planning and Development Agency, and, well, perhaps we might hear some more on this issue some time later
Save Our Nation!
Dolly…ever make a cisit there before, but honest! Only passing by and not for a short term visit
really shearyadi bro? are you sure?? wink wink!
“Prostitution is violence against women and violates the most basic human rights to sexual autonomy and integrity.”
Retrieved from http://www.familypolicyinstitute.com on Nov. 10, 2009
Hi Nanda,
First of.. I’m proud of you and totally support what you’ve been doing regarding to this issue. I was born n raised in Surabaya, and am so ashamed of the fact that my hometown has one of the largest prostitution district in the world… What a Shame!!! Though, I don’t believe that entering prostitution is a career choice – there is nooo woman wants to have sex with 5, 10, or more men a day. I did a little research on this, it seems like the major reason is economic factor (supporting family members – in most cases, the family doesn’t even know that these girls are working as prostitutes). You are absolutely right about spreading of HIV/AIDS, drugs and crimes which come along with Gang Dolly… not to mention HPV and other sexual transmitted diseases. 8000 Indonesian women died from cervical cancer which 99.7% caused by HPV per year… the number of cervical cancer patients currently about 27 percent of all cancer patients in Indonesia. This is such a big number, don’t ya think??? (http://www.antara.co.id/arc/2007/9/20/kanker-mulut-rahim-rengut-8000-wanita-indonesia-per-tahun/)
Not all this cancer patients are “working girls,” she could be a wife whose husband got the disease from other person. Casual sex especially unprotected one is just put the whole community high health risk. And what was up with “sex-tourism” Gosh so Absurd!!!
I’ve been interested in Sustainable Energy & Development, and I think this can be a solution to create more jobs – by offering some kind of training program to help them exit the trade.
I would really appreciate it if you could keep us updated on the progress.
@ Ayu: boleh minta contact information untuk berbagi isi kepala? Siapa tahu kita bisa menghasilkan sesuatu yang bermanfaat bagi Surabaya tercinta, penduduknya, dan dunia pendidikan. Silakan kirim email ke prananda.navitas@gmail.com dan marilah kita berdiskusi (dan mengambil tindakan, mungkin) demi Surabaya yang lebih baik
to the author:
can you give the exact address of dolly street? thank you
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