Bali 'gigolos' arrested after YouTube video shines light on Indonesian sex tourism
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Police on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali have arrested around 30 men suspected of male prostitution with western women.

Bali police spokesman Gede Sugianyar said the move was an attempt to "clean up the beach of prostitution" after it emerged in a documentary by a foreign film-maker that local men, known as beach 'cowboys', were wooing female tourists.

The documentary 'Cowboys in Paradise' - the work of Singapore-based director Amit Virmani - left Bali's tourism officials reeling when it was shown at a South Korean film festival earlier this month.

In the film, which has been posted on YouTube, local men talk honestly about how they seduce visiting female tourists, with the wife of one of the 'cowboys' admitting: "When my husband's guests come, he stays with them. For a night or two, I don't sleep with him. I don't mind that".
Tourism chiefs fear that the video is tarnishing Bali's reputation as a family-friendly destination. More than six million visitors flock to the island every year for its cocktail of sunshine, culture and beaches.

Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika said: "Certainly it's worrying. We'll take action so the image of Bali as a spiritual island isn't tainted".

The men involved have denied the relationships formed on the beaches involve money.

29-year-old Rosnan Efendi commented: "I'm stressed by the raids. I wonder if the authorities are coming after me next.

"I'm also angry the film-maker twisted the story. We were told it was a documentary about love and relationships between locals and foreigners.

Oh c'mon..., let those men cater the emotional and physical needs of foreign female tourist....
People just wanna have fun in tropical paradise...

LOL I've seen them in action. Those boys are smooth. Fellow female tourists give me some look and it feels dirty. It won't been the same anymore I don't want to be seen as a piece of meat. I demand to be treated with respect.

I guess that one of the things Amit Virmani has done with his documentary is to re-dress the common belief that it is only foreign men who go to Asia looking for an easy fling with the local girls.
The doco shines a light on the fact that foreign women are also indulging in the same practice, and even married Indonesian men are seeing them as an easy way to earn $$$.
Despite the fact that the wife says she does not mind so much that her husband stays overnight with the foreign women, I think that it must put some pressure on the local family life.

This is not fair....!

If you don't like those Bali "cowboys" getting arrested. Why not advocate to regulate it ?

Prostitution (male or female) is not legal in Indonesia, except in hush-hush "red light" districts in several Indonesian cities that gain sleazy "official" patronage.
Why bother to pursue legal way if they will lose anyway?
The prostitution nature of Kuta Cowboys itself remain unclear, is it profession or just people have consentual and mutual fun/sex...

I say let them be...

Well I'm not a fan of prostitution.....but you must admit it happens. To me, if i was forced to choose it's better to legalize, regulate and decriminalise prostitution than have "hush-hush red light districts" where STDs, organized criminals and other social problems can grow. If we want to think financially, the state could benefit huge from this. If someone pursues it to be legalised it's gonna lose because really no one is going to see the matter objectively.

With regards of the acts of these so called "Kuta Cowboys", I don't like it, Bali is too beautiful to be a sex tourism hot spot....I would recommend to these women looking for sex to visit the Caribbean, I heard the d!cks are bigger there.

Regarding the Caribean, there was a similar documentary on SBS a couple of months ago, about women going to the islands in search of love and fun.

I know a case where a German woman would send a plane ticket to an Indonesian man she met in Bali on vacation. She would do this every year, so he can fly to Germany to screw her. So these cowboys must have some mad loving making skills.