Roll On
Indonesian prostitutes to roll cigarettes in Ramadan
JAKARTA, (Reuters Life!) - Indonesian authorities plan to offer prostitutes in a key cigarette producing area jobs after it banned them from soliciting during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, a newspaper said on Friday.
Ramadan began in Indonesia on Thursday and officials in Java island’s Malang district plan to give the sex workers money to buy tobacco and paper and train them to produce hand-rolled cigarettes, which will be supplied to cigarette factories.
“We can’t ask them to stop operating during Ramadan without giving them an alternative means of income, as this is our moral obligation,” Ihwanul Muslimin, head of Malang’s public order police unit, was quoted as saying in the Jakarta Post.
Indonesia is the world’s largest Muslim country and during Ramadan, Muslims are required to abstain from eating, drinking — as well as smoking and having sex — from dawn to dusk.
Cigarettes, drunks, if a hooker can get some money off it…