The book i was looking for was not available at Borders Bejaya Time Square, so i picked this up instead. With stories on seedy red-light districts, underground club circuit, sashimi sex… don’t blame me for being curious!
 

Jakarta Undecover by Moammar Emka features many stories about the unlimited sexual services (from sashimi sex to nude casinos) available in Jakarta, the capital of the world’s largest Muslim country. However, the book which was supposed to have taken Indonesia by storm and sold a whopping 200,000 copies was really errr… unexceptional.

The scenes depicted in the book were dull and each story sounded similar from start to finish. Starting of with the author gaining access via his network of social contacts to exclusive nude parties and sex-for-hire clubs for only the rich and famous and ending with the too-good-to-be-true author declining sexual favors, dignity intact. To be fair, this book was translated to English being the original written in Indonesian language, so the original one might be in a better taste.

Most scenarios were of no surprise coz it does not just happens in Jakarta but in almost every red district around the world. *We’re in great danger! Overly-horny people are everywhere! The interesting part is in this densely Muslim populated part of the world there were even sex-for-sale in chauffeured driven SUVs where customers get to choose the brand of kick-ass luxury cars they prefer. *Sex On Wheels!! Woo Hoo!!

In all, its just a series of mediocre stories. While reading it, I was distracted and more interested watching a middle-aged Australian couple sitting beside me, enjoying Night Fever by Bee Gees while pretending to be a drummer and keyboardist on invisible drum and keyboard set while their son did some karate moves.

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Found out later that there was a Indonesian movie adapted from this book under the same title. Unfortunately this movie was banned in Malaysia *18SX ma!, coz i think it’ll be way better than the book. Check this out.