Dolly Goes Underground

By shuttering the Dolly red-light district earlier this year, Surabaya Mayor Tri Rismaharini intended above all to keep local children away from the sex industry.

But the move was criticized last week by a former minister and a United Nations health expert at a panel discussion organized by the Jakarta Foreign Correspondents Club last week, on the subject of prostitution, trafficking and HIV/AIDS.

"Sex work doesn't go away," said David Bridger, a senio

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