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Squatters resettle Pasar Ikan area in defiance of eviction
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Residents have erected semi-permanent housing on cleared land in the Pasar Ikan area of North Jakarta after the quick count in Jakarta’s recent election indicated that Anies Baswedan and Sandiaga Uno will replace incumbents Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama and Djarot Saiful Hidayat as governor and vice governor.
(Warta Kota/Panji Baskhara Ramadhan)
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esidents have erected semi-permanent dwellings on cleared land in the Pasar Ikan area of North Jakarta after the quick count in Jakarta’s recent election indicated that Anies Baswedan and Sandiaga Uno will replace incumbents Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama and Djarot Saiful Hidayat as governor and vice governor.
As reported by kompas.com on Wednesday, the residents, who were evicted in April last year but refused to move to specially provided low-cost apartments, said they had voted for Anies and Sandiaga in the runoff.
They believed Anies and Sandiaga would fulfil their campaign promise to improve their welfare as well as let them build houses and stay in that area.
"We believe Pak Anies and Pak Sandi [unlike Ahok] won't destroy the buildings that we built with our hard work," said a 40-year-old resident named Adi.
A fisherman named Ujang, 39, who stayed in a tent provided by the Gerindra Party, said he hoped Anies and Sandiaga would revive the Pasar Ikan and Kampung Akuarium area.
Since the eviction, he said, residents had lost their jobs.
Ujang added that the residents were confident about building homes because they believed Anies and Sandiaga would favor poor people.
During the campaign period for the first round of the election on Feb. 15, Anies, together with Gerindra patron Prabowo Soebianto, greeted residents in that area.
Prabowo said at the time that Anies and Sandiaga would defend the evicted residents, if elected. (cal)
