Typology of Rural and Urban FSWs

(a)As expressed by the effort it takes outreach workers and researchers to gain access to sites.(b)Definition of autonomy: freedom of FSW to determine their own actions and behaviours; High autonomy = e.g. FSW can reject clients; can come to work as she likes (needs to); can leave the workplace after work hours; medium autonomy = e.g. FSW can reject clients and can leave the workplace after work hours but is otherwise pressured, i.e. through quota and payment schemes; low autonomy = e.g. FSW can only reject non-paying clients; cannot leave the workplace as she likes; are not free to decide on what to spent their earnings.(c)Definition of personal safety: High e.g. can seek protection from police, manager, venue-owner, thugs and/or peers; medium e.g. can seek protection from venue-owner, pimp, thugs and/or peers; protection from police interference (i.e. raids); low e.g. cannot seek protection and subject to police harassment (i.e. raids).(d)Definition of interference from law enforcement: High = frequent police raids and arrests, Medium = regular collection of bribes, occasional police raids, Low = occasional bribes, police raids uncommon.(e)Based on the highest proportion of reported pay by last client in 2007. IDR = Indonesian Rupiah. USD = US Dollar.(f)This is the gross price per transaction among direct venue-based urban FSWs. After compulsory deductions from the part of their employer, the net amount an FSW is to keep can be as little as IDR 10 000 per transaction.