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Indonesia 🇮🇩
Country District Guide
❌ Prostitution Illegal
Indonesia maintains a severe federal prohibition on sex work through a combination of stringent public morality criminal codes and aggressively enforced regional Sharia-based bylaws (such as in Aceh). Historically boasting some of the planet’s largest localized red-light districts (like Surabaya’s Dolly), the central government launched unprecedented erasure campaigns in the 2010s to mechanically shutter all organized prostitution hubs.