A survey with 300 Indonesian sex workers in Batam has revealed that 60 per cent of them have customers from Singapore, and only a quarter of these customers “always use condoms”.
More than 45 per cent of these sex workers also said they have to provide the condoms themselves.
The survey is part of a study done by Singapore’s non-governmental agency Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics (HOME), with partner agencies in Batam, Yayasan Lintas Nusa and Yayasan Dunia Viva Wanita, in April 2012. Full story
