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Indonesian sex workers organise - Lilith7 - 24-04-2023 Good for this woman - given that there will almost certainly be a need for sex workers, this is a good move since the less its hidden, the more likely medical help will be accessed when needed. https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/4/21/sex-workers-in-indonesia-struggle-to-unionise-amid-stigma-shame
Dewi lives in Bandungan, a small mountain town known for drawing thousands of sex workers from all over Indonesia. Living side-by-side with the women trying to make a living, Dewi empathised with their situation.
Dewi decided to set up PERKAWIS after a sex worker died of an overdose and was discovered in a boarding house close to Bandungan with only a fake identity card on them.
“It was so difficult for us because we couldn’t find their family,” Dewi recalled. “There were a number of other cases too, where a sex worker died and we had no data about them. Now we compile the data of the workers who come here so that we know who to contact if there is a problem.”
Activists say the tendency of sex workers to move away from family and friends only adds to the need for groups like PERKAWIS that can offer support.
Dewi said PERKAWIS does not have a set number of members as the turnover of sex workers in the area is high, but that she typically has about 100 sex workers in her database at any given time.
“I just do as much as I can do, within the conditions that I have to work with,” she said. “I just try to care about the people around me.”
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