Prostitusi di Semarang pasca 1852

Abstract

The mention of women who choose a profession to work in the field of prostitution, every era has a different mention, there is a mention of jalir which was used in the previous royal era, there is also a mention of public women which was used during the Dutch East Indies period, followed by prostitutes and when this term becomes more refined as a prostitute. During the Dutch East Indies era, the prostitution sector received special attention from the government at that time because it had a direct impact on workers in the Dutch East Indies, from soldiers to government officials. At first the Colonial Government only gave burdens to the perpetrators without having binding laws related to prostitution so that the resulting impact was the spread of venereal diseases among the citizens of the Dutch East Indies. This was the end of the Dutch East Indies Government requiring special efforts to deal with the emerging social phenomena. The concrete effort that was made was the enactment of a rule in 1852 so that the government had control over the effects of rampant prostitution. The writing of this article uses historical methods to trace how the Colonial Government’s efforts to deal with the problem of prostitution in the colonies.