Brothel Villages (AND K24)
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'The islands draw thousands of Indonesians in search of jobs in Singapore-backed factories and resorts. But many who come end up as prostitutes in 'brothel villages' hacked out of the jungle, catering mainly to sex tourists from Singapore
The proximity of wealthy Singapore, just a 20-kilometre (12-mile) ferry ride away, is a natural resource for the Riaus. The islands are far cheaper and faster to reach for Singaporeans than more traditional sex tourism destinations such as Thailand and the Philippines, which are frequented more by Europeans and Americans.
Two Riau islands known as Bintan and Batam, especially, have become seedy escapes from Singapore's strict social confines, and a dangerous lure for Indonesians seeking a better life.
'Weekdays, a lot of older men come here from Singapore. They tell their wives they're on business, or fishing,' said Ianow, watching TV and waiting to be chosen by clients and taken to hotels.
In Bintan's 'Kilometer 24', a village supported entirely by prostitution, an unmarked turnoff from the potholed, muddy main road suddenly becomes a modern paved lane leading into the jungle.
The lane is lined by about 100 tidy, colorful houses, each fronted by a stand selling soft drinks, beer and snacks. When a vehicle enters the village, hundreds of smiling and laughing young women rush out of the houses and try to yank open the doors.
Brothel owners and local authorities set up the village in 1992 to contain Bintan's growing prostitution problem and keep it away from ordinary towns on the mainly Muslim island.
About half of the women in Kilometer 24 are conned into coming or bought outright from their parents by syndicates, largely in Indonesia's West Java region, said Bintan police chief Agus Setiyoko. The rest come on their own seeking jobs, he said. Many of the women fall ever more deeply into debt to the crime syndicates and brothel madams because they get to keep little of the cash handed over by customers.
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Payar Labu village is located 14km from the main town of Tanjung Balai.
Tj Balai taxi drivers are not so keen to bring punters to PL, as they cannot get commissions. They will tell you all kinds of negative shit about the place, all of which is b.s. The Malay (non Chinese) taxi drivers are more willing to bring you there. Pay about Rp30-40,000 to be dropped off. (There are plenty of cabs in the village to bring you back.) Or hop aboard the old fashioned open sided busses and travel 9km to Meral town, from where you take a minibus the remaining 5km to Tj Balai.
There must be over 100 houses in the village by now, of which about 60% have girls. At an average of , say, 6 girls per house, the village has about 350 young ladies. Most come from Java, though you will meet a few from Kalimantan, Sumatra (mostly Medan and Palembang) and Madura. The age group is mostly in the 20 - 25 year bracket, with a few younger and older.
The village is quite friendly, though maybe not quite as friendly as Batu 24. The best time of day to visit any brothel village anywhere starts from 2 hours before dusk until an hour or so after dark. In most villages, the place is crawling with local young men by 8 - 9pm, when it is time to go to bed, or go somewhere else.
The going rate for a s/t is Rp50,000 (negotiate beforehand) and Rp200,000 for all night. Like km24, it is possible to sleep in the girl's room, if you wish - the police charge is Rp35,000. It may be possible to bargain the all night rate down to Pp150,000
Batu 24 (Bintan)
TANJUNG PINANG on Bintan Island has many hotels both within town and as far as 12 kilometers along the road to Tanjung Uban. The photos on this page are all of the village at Batu Dua Puluh Empat (in English: "Batu 24" or "Kilometer 24").
This a very safe and friendly village. The going rate for a taxi, one way from Tanjung Pinang ferry terminal is Rp30-35,000. Others have said that the drivers of the small white station wagon taxis at the jetty are no good, but I have found them all to be okay guys.
Just get the taxi to drop you there (in Indonesian "satu kali jalan"). At the village, the going rate is Rp50,000 s/t and Rp200k all night "booking" (sleep in the girl's room). + Rp15k police report money.
You can see from the photos below that the village is reasonably clean and well kept. The locals are very friendly. The girls are nearly all from Java. There were some very cute ones among them. Taxis back to town are easy to find, they cruise past the villages houses looking for passengers; you may have to wait 10 - 20 minutes for one to show up.
Book a girl for the night, leave your stuff in her room (use a lockable bag). Bring a good book, as there nothing else to do except s/t, drink cold beer and eat local food (3 eating places in the village). The place suits the more adventurous: little or no English is spoken, so you will have to just "get by".
It ideal to arrive at about 4pm and leave the next morning. Spend the couple of hours before dark doing a couple of circuits of all the houses and have a joke around with the girls. You will find them to very willing and friendly. All in all, a very very pleasant overnight break.
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Payar Labu village is located 14km from the main town of Tanjung Balai.
Tj Balai taxi drivers are not so keen to bring punters to PL, as they cannot get commissions. They will tell you all kinds of negative shit about the place, all of which is b.s. The Malay (non Chinese) taxi drivers are more willing to bring you there. Pay about Rp30-40,000 to be dropped off. (There are plenty of cabs in the village to bring you back.) Or hop aboard the old fashioned open sided busses and travel 9km to Meral town, from where you take a minibus the remaining 5km to Tj Balai.
There must be over 100 houses in the village by now, of which about 60% have girls. At an average of , say, 6 girls per house, the village has about 350 young ladies. Most come from Java, though you will meet a few from Kalimantan, Sumatra (mostly Medan and Palembang) and Madura. The age group is mostly in the 20 - 25 year bracket, with a few younger and older.
The village is quite friendly, though maybe not quite as friendly as Batu 24. The best time of day to visit any brothel village anywhere starts from 2 hours before dusk until an hour or so after dark. In most villages, the place is crawling with local young men by 8 - 9pm, when it is time to go to bed, or go somewhere else.
The going rate for a s/t is Rp50,000 (negotiate beforehand) and Rp200,000 for all night. Like km24, it is possible to sleep in the girl's room, if you wish - the police charge is Rp35,000. It may be possible to bargain the all night rate down to Pp150,000
Batu 24 (Bintan)
TANJUNG PINANG on Bintan Island has many hotels both within town and as far as 12 kilometers along the road to Tanjung Uban. The photos on this page are all of the village at Batu Dua Puluh Empat (in English: "Batu 24" or "Kilometer 24").
This a very safe and friendly village. The going rate for a taxi, one way from Tanjung Pinang ferry terminal is Rp30-35,000. Others have said that the drivers of the small white station wagon taxis at the jetty are no good, but I have found them all to be okay guys.
Just get the taxi to drop you there (in Indonesian "satu kali jalan"). At the village, the going rate is Rp50,000 s/t and Rp200k all night "booking" (sleep in the girl's room). + Rp15k police report money.
You can see from the photos below that the village is reasonably clean and well kept. The locals are very friendly. The girls are nearly all from Java. There were some very cute ones among them. Taxis back to town are easy to find, they cruise past the villages houses looking for passengers; you may have to wait 10 - 20 minutes for one to show up.
Book a girl for the night, leave your stuff in her room (use a lockable bag). Bring a good book, as there nothing else to do except s/t, drink cold beer and eat local food (3 eating places in the village). The place suits the more adventurous: little or no English is spoken, so you will have to just "get by".
It ideal to arrive at about 4pm and leave the next morning. Spend the couple of hours before dark doing a couple of circuits of all the houses and have a joke around with the girls. You will find them to very willing and friendly. All in all, a very very pleasant overnight break.
Dedicated to all my horny brothers!
I was in my home based office in Jakarta waiting for some semiconductors orders from USA.
I received many calls and they were extremely sucking especially in the middle of the night.
Customers were asking me to fax invoices for confirmation of orders.
To make matter worst I had to catch my domestic flight to Surabaya the following day.
To cut the long story short, I received a call from my Indonesian friend.
This person knows who I am referring to.
He kept calling me even though I told him I would not be able to make it since I had a flight the next day.
Well, his prime objective was to ask me to join him to look for PRC girls in one of the fuck shops in Jakarta.
He was really making my dick went up and down continuously as I was focusing on my orders and flight at the same time thinking of those PRC cunts inviting me to enter their prime zone.
Man.., my faith gone with those cunts!!!
At about 1am, both of us, went to 2001Disco House, a famous KTV cum casino.
There were many girls all from the east to west.
Personally, I prefer PRC...therefore I chose one to keep me accompany.
My friend chose a girl from Ukraine, this was what she claim she was from.
Deep in my thought, no matter where she was from, a cunt is still a cunt.
A few minutes later, we went to a KTV room.
It was too spacious for only four of us.
There were even an additional bedroom attached to do your job with your favorite cunt.
It was fantastic as there was an additional space for a group of local girls to perform strip dancing.
Oh...I was in a total horny thoughts!!!
The music started and I was in the mood of fondling and sucking the tits of my girl.
While doing that, there were 6 naked girls in front of me masturbating.
(I did not see those in Singapore)
They even squirted their cunt juices which were thick and creamy as mushroom soup.
They asked me to lick their juices and I got freaked out.
I smiled and turned down their offer politely.
Oh shit...I did not want to slurp those chicken and mutton soup which were available in the menu.
Three hours later, I decided to bonk my girl.
My friend decided to bonk her blonde cunt in the KTV room as he preferred those 6 girls watching him while he show off his bonking talent.
Anyway, we entered the attached bedroom and it was scented with rose aroma theraphy.
I read from a book saying that rose has a medical property to stimulate your sex organs once you inhale it.
I need to reconfirm with my friends who are doctors.
When the bedroom door was locked, we had our private time.
We plunged in a Jacuzzi pool and she was scrubbing my back.
She lifted my ass while the used her fingers to tickle and scrub my balls.
Phew, she had done a fantastic job.
While she was doing it, she asked me if it was good.
I replied in Mandarin, "Ohh...fantastic ..ahh...great job!"
She smiled and continue to rub me in a pool of warm Jacuzzi which was filled with blueberry foam.
I could feel her pussy hair and warm cunt.
I just could not take it anymore and put on helmet on my dick and bonked her hard in the pool.
She moaned repeatedly and her face was flushing.
I sucked her nipples and I spat out because there were soap which I had forgotten to remove.
It was so fucking bitter.
She laughed and gigled...I also laughed and continued to suck her pink nipples.
I bonked and bonked until I oozed my protein out in her cunt.
We rested and chatted.
Thirty-minutes later, we drained the content in the pool and dried ourselves.
I rested....in a bed.
Spreading her legs apart, she invited for a second round.
Phew....wow!!!
She was so fair and smooth as silk.
I put on my new helmet on my dick and asked her to suck it dry.
She did it without hesitation and ohhh....deep throat suction power with grip.
Finally, I rooted her cunt gently...
She moan and moan....
I pumped and pumped....while looking at her breasts shaking up and down
I pumped her harder and harder and I EXPLODED in a missionary position with a style!!!
Looking at my watch, it was nearly 6am in the morning.
I shook my head and told myself, "Oh shit I have to rush to the airport now."
Field report of my girl, Bing Bing.
Look : 8
Breast : 8
BBBJ : 9
AR :8
FJ : 8
Overall: 8
RTF : Yes
Damaged: Rp 2000 000
Overall personal damaged: Rp3000 000
Total damaged : Rp6000 000
Regards,
Herry
News on Indonesia THE FLESH TRADE
High demand has led to the rapid development of the sex industry in Indonesia. In Jakarta alone, an estimated $91 million changes hands ever year in the business. Nationwide the turnover is thought to be up to $3.6 billion annually.
There are an estimated 650,000 prostitutes in the country. Nearly half of these are children under 18 years old. Pimping and streetwalking are illegal but prostitution, per se, is technically not an offense, though it is socially condemned.
Although prosecutors generally interpret "crimes against decency/morality" as applicable to prostitution, the latter is not specifically mentioned in the Penal Code.
The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund in Indonesia (UNICEF) says as many as 70,000 Indonesian children have also been sold across the country's borders as sex commodities. Many find their way to Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore.
The prevalence and ease of obtaining fraudulent national identity cards, documenting children as adults, contributes significantly to the trafficking problem. There is no law that specifically prohibits trafficking in persons, though the offense is criminalized under the Penal Code and the Child Protection Act.
UNICEF has called on Indonesia to follow the examples set by Thailand, Cambodia and India in cracking down on child prostitution trafficking.
The International Labor Organization (ILO) says thousands of children in Java have been forced into prostitution by their parents and others. The ILO said its researchers found more than 21,000 prostituted children ? some as young as 15 ? during a study of Jakarta and all Javanese provinces except Banten.
"Poverty, lack of educational facilities, traditional views on economic values of a girl and loose social control are identified as the main characteristics of the sending areas," the organization said in a statement.
It said children are sent into prostitution by parents and other relatives, as well as by "agents or sub-agents and facilitators".
"Field work in receiving areas shows that the entry age of children to prostitution is between the ages of 15 to 17 years old," it said.
Reliable sources claim members of the military and government officials are often involved in setting up and protecting brothels. Traffickers and brothel owners reportedly pay protection money to security force members.
Only about 150,000 of the nations prostitutes are registered at official brothel complexes.
Poverty, ignorance and un-enforced laws are the main factors behind the stark reality that the country is also one of the world's biggest exporters of sex workers, mainly children.
Poverty is the trigger in most cases. In some rural areas of Indonesia, parents are also known to sell their children for money as recruits for the sex industry. Local girls see prostitution as a quick and easy way to make money, and irresponsible parties exploit children.
The Riau Islands host the country's most thriving prostitution center, Batam, a fast growing industrial estate island close to Singapore and a magnet for economic migrants from all over Indonesia.
Many girls have to support their family back in their kampung, while others were abandoned by their husbands and resorted to prostitution to support their children.
Singaporeans and, to a lesser extent, Malaysians, help fuel the sex trade in the flesh spots of Batam. Many spend their weekends on the island where they find sex workers in karaoke bars, massage parlors and various gambling dens.
Singaporeans account for seven or eight out of every 10 men who go to the Riau island - an hour's ride away by ferry - for a sex romp, according to a non-governmental organization that helps sex workers there.
A recent survey by Batam-based NGO the Humanity and Health Partner Foundation (YMKK) found that about 600 Singaporean men arrive on Batam's shores every Saturday for sex. Most of these are Chinese men -from teenagers to granddads clutching walking aids - looking for sex partners.
YMKK said most sex workers were between the age of 17 and 30, and charged from Rp280,000 (about $30) to Rp500,000 for each "trick".
Bukit Girang, ('happy hill') one of the six 'prostitution villages' in Batam, has a whole row of bars - wooden huts painted in bright colors such as pink and purple - lining its village square.
Locals and Singaporean men flock there in droves looking for cheap sex. They pay between $10 and $20 for intercourse, compared to at least $50 charged by sex workers in Nagoya town, further south where the sex workers are younger and sexier.
Freelance 'brothel brokers' look out for young women and lure them into prostitution. Brothels and karaoke bars pay these brokers a commission for each girl they introduce.
The going rate for a fresh face is as much as $200. An attractive girl can fetch about $400 at a karaoke bar.
YMKK says Batam has about 7,000 registered prostitutes who work in government-regulated establishments, but it estimates at least 15,000 girls under the age of 18 on the Riau Islands are sex workers.
Lola Shirin T. Wagner, the chairwoman of YMKK, said some 30- 60% of the sex workers operating in the major urban areas of Batam, Tanjung Pinang and Tanjung Balai Karimun are children.
Batam's health office data showed the island had official data of some 7,000 prostitutes -- those who are legally registered and work in government regulated establishments. However, the actual number could be closer to 20,000, or some 13,000 illegal ones, according to the foundation.
The ease with which visitors can find commercial sex workers in Batam is not balanced by adequate measures to prevent sexually transmitted diseases.
Batam has one of the highest incidences of HIV/Aids in Indonesia and could turn into a catalyst for the spread of HIV into the rest of western Indonesia.
Many infected sex workers are part of illegal, organized prostitution rings, and many eventually return to their home areas in Java or elsewhere, often not even knowing they have contracted HIV.
In Java itself, thousands of children have been forced into prostitution by their parents and others, according to the ILO. Its researchers found more than 21,000 prostituted children during their study of the capital, Jakarta, and all Javanese provinces except Banten.
The ILO says the children were sent into prostitution by parents and other relatives as well as agents.
The government last year came up with a national plan to combat the trafficking of women and children but there is no budget to implement the plan. The regular criminal code, the Penal Code, prohibits trade in women and male minors, but is silent on female minors.
Law enforcers, either out of lack of knowledge or collusion with the suspects, often ignore the law and prosecute cases using the Code, which provides for sanctions of up to six years in prison. Judges rarely sentence traffickers to more than three years in prison.
Police and prosecutors generally use the Code against traffickers because they lack familiarity with the relatively new Child Protection Act that provides for stiffer penalties.
Bill Guerin
Rough trade April 30 2003  A 14-year-old prostitute working in a karaoke bar in Batam.
On the Indonesian island of Batam, trafficking is a booming business. The commodity - young girls sold into prostitution. Matthew Moore reports. Barely 14, Dewi is the girl her "momma" sends round when men in Batam ask for a young one. Tall enough to be an adult, Dewi has a child's body and a mind still struggling to comprehend life's violent summersault that came when a neighbor sold her into prostitution. That was about a year ago, when Dewi (not her real name) was living in poverty in a small town east of Jakarta. Some of what happened she remembers well, but the trauma and her immaturity have combine to blur many of the details. Still, she remembers her neighbor Trisno convincing her grandmother he could get her a job in Jakarta. "He said, you can work in a restaurant or as a maid. My grandmother believed him and so he took me," Dewi tells The Age in a hotel in Batam. Trisno took her to a place called SG, where he left her. Her new life began soon after. "I can still remember his face. He's old with glasses, he's strong, he's Chinese . . ." she recalls. "I was afraid, I was shaking. I told him I want to go home, but he took me to a discotheque. He asked me, 'do you want to sing', and he took me to a karaoke place and I told him I want to go home. And then he took me home to the hotel. "He said open your dress. "I said 'I don't want to'. I cried." The man told her he would not take her out again if she did not open her dress. "He said tomorrow we can go to Ancol and Taman Mini (entertainment parks). And so I did it. So I lost my virginity." Dewi didn't understand she'd been sold when she fled back to her grandmother, who was furious she'd lost her virginity and reported Trisno to the police. Selling girls into prostitution might technically be illegal in Indonesia, but it is not considered a serious crime and Trisno had no trouble negotiating his way to freedom. Another "friend" then convinced Dewi to go with her to Batam, a booming island near Singapore where thousands of Indonesians head in search of jobs. She promised they would stay with relatives; instead she took her to a karaoke bar where she left her. "She cheated me," Dewi says. Only 13, Dewi had been sold for a second time. Now she lives above one of Batam's numerous prostitution bars with two dozen other girls, sleeping by day, sent to hotel rooms by night. She's contracted venereal disease, which she says her "momma" treats with a herbal health tonic. She also owes the club for the clothes she has to buy and, only recently, she got her period. She'd like to go home, but she knows it won't happen. "That's what I want, but how could I do that?" In Batam, you can tell the places where girls like Dewi live by the ropes. On balconies overlooking backstreets, captive prostitutes have them draped over the railings or hanging down to the streets below. Restricted from leaving their dormitory quarters, the ropes are the easiest way to get food and drinks - they lower money to street vendors below who use the ropes to send supplies back up. It's a convenient way of sidestepping one clause in the harsh contracts that rule the lives and the movements of thousands of women and girls who work in Batam's ballooning sex industry. Many Australians might never know they've been within sight of it. Look north from Batam's beaches, Singapore's gleaming towers loom large on the horizon. Only half an hour away by ferry, Batam last year was Indonesia's busiest international port after Denpasar. Singaporeans make up 80 per cent of the foreign visitors, most of them looking for a quick and cheap weekend away. Most of the visitors are men and, if you believe the girls on the balconies, they all come for one thing. Sex, it seems, is for sale everywhere in Batam. Massage parlors, brothels and karaoke bars are dotted throughout the town and taxi drivers scratch their heads if asked to name a hotel where sex is not on offer. Authorities estimate there are more than 9000 prostitutes in Batam, an island with a population of just over half a million. Surging demand for commercial sex in recent years has seen Batam develop into a major centre for trafficking women and girls like Dewi, some of whom end up overseas. Febrina Yaswir, from the Indonesian Family Planning Association, has spent three years working with prostitutes in Batam and in the neighboring islands Karimun and Bintan, which also support vigorous sex industries. Although there are no reliable figures on how many Batam prostitutes have been trafficked or sold into their jobs, Yaswir believes the numbers are overwhelming. "As many as 90 per cent of the prostitutes we see have been trafficked," she says. They come from all over Indonesia, especially from villages in Java and Sumatra. They are young, naive and poor, and their stories are all similar. Usually a family acquaintance will promise parents they will find their daughter a job in Batam, working in a restaurant, or as a maid. The family friend, perhaps with the help of an agent or another middleman, will instead take the girl to a brothel in Batam and receive a substantial fee, often about 3 million rupiah, or $600. With little education, no understanding of their rights, and no money, these girls have no ability to protest and little practical option but to work for the "mommas" who run the brothels. After all, once the brothel owners have paid for a girl, they won't readily let her go before they've turned a profit on their investment. Gangs of thugs outside the clubs discourage the girls from attempting to flee. And if they do leave, the girls know they'll be followed home and punished. From the moment of arrival, the girls are told they are in debt for three or four months for the cost of transporting them to the brothel, for their keep and for the payments made to their agents who delivered them. If they want to leave, it will cost them. "If we want to go before the 120 days are up we have to pay 100,000 rupiah ($20) per day," says Tini, 20, from one of Batam's karaoke clubs. As with almost all the contracts, her's requires her to sleep in the dormitory located above the club when she's not out on a job. "About 30 of us live there on the third floor and sleep in bunk beds. Usually there are two to a bed, but sometimes there are three of us. We are allowed out from 5pm to 6.30pm but it's impossible to go out before 5.30 because the 'momma' will be very angry. She will know." Down at the Lucy's Oar House - as the sign says "Batam's Best Collection of Oars" - most of the business is going on in the Banana Bar upstairs, not at the Rock Hard Caf down below. The 15 Banana Bar prostitutes are also required to sleep in the dormitory upstairs when they are not booked for the night by the bar's clients. The Australian owner of Lucy's and the Banana Bar, Evan Jones, defends the arrangement. "They do have to sleep there because if they don't, they will go to the disco and get f----d up on drugs, they'll get health problems,'' Jones says. "That's the deal, that's pretty standard." Jones says all the women who work in his brothel are there voluntarily and were not trafficked, although he agrees others were elsewhere in Batam. "I think some of it is true," he says. "The girls are cheated. Someone offers them a job in a restaurant and when they get up here they get sold off to a karaoke bar. If you ask the girls in a karaoke bar they'll often tell you that." One of the women working for Jones told The Age they must work three months before they get paid. If they want to leave their jobs earlier, the flat fee is 3 million rupiah. Jones agrees he requires the women to work a minimum of three months before they were paid, but denies they have to pay 3 million rupiah if they leave early. He refuses to explain his contracts. "That's none of your business, actually," he says. Outside the back door at Queens massage parlour in downtown Batam, a police car pulls up at about 8pm on a quiet Wednesday night. A uniformed policeman gets out, pushes open the parlour door and goes straight to the counter. He shows little interest in the fishbowl room to his right, where 40 young women with numbers pinned to their tops sit watching television behind one-way glass as their next customers survey them. He's only come for the money, and he doesn't have to wait long before it is handed over. Judging from the BMW and Volvo cars at the Batam police station, other officers have trodden a similarly profitable route. The head of the women's desk at the police station, Uri Nartanti, readily concedes that Batam police take bribes from the massage parlors and karaoke bars; that they have little interest in the offence of trafficking despite her efforts. The lack of concern among police is generally reflected in the Indonesian government, where officials often find it easier to take bribes and ignore the trafficking industry, which is not considered a problem. This week, a fresh attempt to make it more of an issue is being made in Bali, where delegates from 40 countries across the region and beyond are discussing trafficking strategies at a conference organized by the Australian and Indonesian governments on transnational crime. In a speech to Batam's Government recently, Jakarta-based AIDS expert, Dr Irwanto, revealed that Karimun Island has the second highest rate of HIV infections among prostitutes in Indonesia, after Papua. He feared an "explosion in AIDS" in Batam and neighboring islands will soon erupt because so many clients refuse to use condoms and the young prostitutes are so ignorant about reproductive health. Trying to teach the prostitutes the importance of condoms is difficult, partly because so many are so young. "Batam is one very unique place. Whenever I come here I'm surprised so many of the girls are children."
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Warren's Singapore 2008