UNAIR NEWS– Book review was one of the pre- national work meeting of Association of Indonesian College Publishers Association (APPTI) at 51动漫.Grey Chicken in the Whirlpool of Money and Sufferingbook review written by Prof.Bagong Suyanto, professor of Economic Sociology, took place at Airlangga University Press on Wednesday, October 4.
Grey Chickenwas written when he worked at UNICEF as a consultant for child labor.In 1999-2001, Bagong wrote 12 books and one of them isGrey Chicken.From that book, Bagong also wrote another book entitledProstituted Children: Victims of Exploitation in the Commercial Sexual Industry.This book became Bagong’s dissertation as a requirement for graduating doctoral program at UNAIR.
Grey Chickenrefers to students involved in the practice of prostitution.Professor who writes actively in mass media said that there are many things that cause a teenager tobecome a grey chicken.Some of the factors are broken homefamily, women who became victims ofchild abuse, womenincestvictims, besides the temptation of friends who had first becomegrey chicken,
Grey Chickenvictims arevulnerable to HIV / AIDS and become victims of exploitation, mainly by pimps who use their services.
Book review was not only attended by college students, but also high school students around the city of Surabaya.A participant from one of the high schools asked a question, “So, what should we do if we have colleagues or close friends who become grey chicken?”
Bagong said not to blame thegrey chickenvictims because, each victim has a different background.
In the book review, Bagong also gave criticism to Dolly localization closure by Mayor of Surabaya Tri Rismaharini.He said the closing of Dolly by training the sex workers there, giving some capital, then repatriated them to their hometown, not the right solution.Closing Dolly requires thorough process and studies.
“Dolly’s localization victim approach should be personal.It cannot be generalized.Each of them has different social problems, “Bagong said.
Bagong regretted the closure of Dolly this way.There will be new undetected locatizations.
In addition toGrey Chickenpublished in March 2017 then, Bagong is currently preparing his new book which is originated from his research onincestvictims.(*)
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