SEX WORK AND THE LAW - HIV/AIDS Data Hub

educate about the situation of sex workers and to promote the protection of their rights.
WNU outreach programmes educate sex workers about HIV, legal issues, human rights
and access to health services. The WNU has issued its members with cards to help them
access health services. The card acts as a ‘welfare entitlement’ to accessing health services
from the hospitals collaborating with WNU. 392
Other community-based sex worker organizations are the Cambodian Prostitutes Union
(CPU) and the Cambodian Men Women Development Agency (CNMWD), which focuses
on transgender sex workers.
The SMART Girl Program implemented by FHI adopts a rights-based approach to health
promotion, using peer educators and outreach workers to promote sexual health among
entertainment workers. Instead of exclusively focusing on condoms, SMART Girl links
entertainment workers to family planning services, clinical care, savings schemes and legal
services. 393 Training materials include participatory exercises to educate entertainment
workers that police cannot confiscate condoms. 394
With the aim to strengthen national representation of the various sex worker and
entertainment worker formal, informal and service networks, an election process was
organized in December 2011 resulting in the appointment of five national representatives
to support enhanced coordination and organization around common issues of concern.
This informal coordination and facilitation mechanism is recognized by all stakeholders
and the government. A National Coordinator represents the sex worker networks on the
Country Coordinating Mechanism of the Global Fund.
6.3 Indonesia 395
Not Illegal
SEX WORK IN
PRIVATE
Not Illegal
SOLICITING
Not Illegal
BROTHELS
6.3.1 Laws
National laws do not specifically prohibit sex work. The Penal Code prohibits facilitation
of acts of obscenity by others as a livelihood (Article 296), trading in women (Article 297),
vagrancy (Article 505) and living on the earnings of a female sex worker (Article 506). 396
392 KIT and Oxfam (2007) Sex workers self-organizing and empowerment: The experience of Women’s
Network for Unity (WNU) in Cambodia, Exchange, Amsterdam: KIT, pp.8-10.
393 FHI (2010), SMART girl Program Reduces Risk and Inspires Behaviour Change, see: http://www.fhi360.org/
en/CountryProfiles/Cambodia/res_SMARTgirl.htm.
394 FHI, Assessing your Risks: SMART girl Program Facilitator’s Guide, p.7.
395 Input to this Chapter was provided by Ajeng Larasati (LBH Masyarakat) and Pardamean Napitu (Aldo)
(Organisasi Pekerja Seks Indonesia).
396 See Hamim A., Rosenberg R., Review of Indonesian Legislation in: Rosenberg R. (ed) Trafficking of
Women and Children in Indonesia Jakarta: ICMC/ACILS, 2003, pp. 195-215, pp. 196-98 and Hull T., Jones G.,
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