City Heat

The trade in pornographic VCDs is blissfully free from economic crisis and almost beyond the reach of law enforcers. Daily turnover is over Rp1 billion.

May 22, 2001

Jakarta's Glodok commercial center was sweltering that day, but the scorching day seemed no match for the heat of candid exposure of smutty goods. Chinatown was teeming with hundreds of stalls selling video compact disks. They covered nearly half of the streets along Jalan Hayam Wuruk, Gajah Mada, Pinangsia and the sidewalks of Glodok. But the real eye-opener was the orgy of 'blue' films on display, quite apart from the ordinary movies. Covers with

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