Handoko, an aspiring journalist, said last week in an interview at Cipinang prison in Jakarta, where he has been held since the raid in May. “When a future employer Googles me, this is what they will see,” Mr. Handoko - appeared on Indonesian social media within hours. Officers herded naked, cowering men into the middle of the room and began taking photos, some of which - including one of Mr. Soon after he took the stage, the police stormed the premises. Handoko felt safe, if a little embarrassed.īut he wasn’t. The Atlantis was a gay sauna in a conservative country, but given the generally live-and-let-live milieu of the Indonesian capital’s night life, Mr. Nearby were plenty of venues with suggestive names like the Playboy Sensation, massage parlors for straight men.
That hardly qualified as outrageous behavior in the red-light district of Kelapa Gading in North Jakarta, where the Atlantis was located. Naked as the day he was born, the bookish 25-year-old had been invited on stage by one of the strippers hired for a party at the Atlantis Gym. JAKARTA, Indonesia - Steven Handoko admits it wasn’t his most dignified moment.
