ABSTRACT
Among middle-class young people in Jakarta and elsewhere in Asia, westernization and globalization have led to the development of a youth culture. Young people belonging to particular groups have become increasingly westernized in their attitudes toward types of fashion, music, film, food and sexuality; they dress, listen to music, watch movies or videos and eat the type of food that they believe teenagers enjoy in western countries; they communicate using a youth dialect which others have difficulty in understanding, and appear much more liberal toward premarital sex than past generations. Media coverage of students who provide sexual services is common, not just in urban but also in rural settings. Indramayu, for example, is an area in West Java widely alleged to supply prostitutes; parents are said to send away their teenage daughters purposely to work in the sex industry and so remit money to the villages.
