When they returned to their villages for the annual Muslim homecoming, Idul Fitri, they were walking advertisements for the cash and glamour of professional sex.
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As rats cavort on the road outside, 22-year-old Niken tells me that she came from the Indramayu village of Patrol when she was 19 at the suggestion of a friend.
The head of the local health office, Idham Latif, tells me that others are reluctant to take on the job.
But the industry adapted, and these days many young Indramayu girls are recruited by their friends, says Sukim, a former pimp who now works at Yayasan Kusuma Bongas, a non-government organisation devoted to fighting the recruitment of sex workers.
She made her debut at age 15 in the titular role of a lovely and naive, yet enticing ballet dancer in the steamy soft-core.
Though he was quick to deny these rumors, this picture makes it seem like there is something going on behind the scenes.
She was 13 and a virgin.