BATAM - Hotel operators in Batam have complained about raids on their hotels by local police. They say it hurts tourism more than it improves safety or anything else. The raids started with the start of the holy month of fasting, Ramadan, but the Association of Indonesian Hotels and Restaurants' (PHRI) on the island has said that the national police is no moral police.
The raids are aimed at those spending the night together without proper marriage documents. That's the Indonesian description of branding a couple as being sinners, or the woman as a prostitute and the man as a person that fucks a whore. This is big money for the police, since most people want to hide for their families what they are doing during the time in the hotel.
When the police chief of Batam was asked for an explanation on the raids, Leonidas Braksan said that he did not know about any raids done under his supervision and that those kind of raids are indeed hurting tourism on the island. He also said that such raids were not in accordance with official police policy. "I have warned the respective police chiefs and told them that we are not sharia police."
Maybe "cought redhanded" wouldn't describe it completly.
Cought with pants down, or no pants at all would make it for Singaporians on a Saturdaynight very painfull.
Herman Brood made a song about that.
"Come Saturdaynight !"
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BATAM - Hotel operators in Batam have complained about raids on their hotels by local police. They say it hurts tourism more than it improves safety or anything else. The raids started with the start of the holy month of fasting, Ramadan, but the Association of Indonesian Hotels and Restaurants' (PHRI) on the island has said that the national police is no moral police.
