The head of the local health office, Idham Latif, tells me that others are reluctant to take on the job.
Though this course of action is so common that there is very little stigma, officially it's frowned upon.
Middlemen still play a role behind the scenes, but if the first suggestion of a career in prostitution is made to a new girl by her friend, the real traffickers can plausibly deny their involvement.
One 2013 Miss America hopeful recently told Marie Claire that she considered the crown a stepping stone on the way to becoming a state governor.
Police say it shows the 19-year-old victim passed out in a chair on the beach being sexually assaulted by one man after another in broad daylight.
In Indonesia, this procedure is usually performed by the midwives at a girl's birth, and can range from a full cliterodectomy to a ceremonial dabbing of a knife on the baby's labia.