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Signs announcing construction project on Pari Island put up amid ongoing land dispute
It is not the first attempt to construct facilities on the island amid the land dispute.
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A sign on Pari Island claiming that construction will soon be under way. (Courtesy of Forum Peduli Pulau Pari/Courtesy of Forum Peduli Pulau Pari)
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land dispute over the ownership of plots on Pari Island, Thousand Islands regency continues as residents have noticed that some security and police officers have erected signs announcing that construction will soon be under way on the island.
On Tuesday morning, residents found that two signs had been put up on the island, in neighborhood units (RTs) 02 and 04 despite no prior consultation with the residents.
The signs read “Give us your sincere prayer. Pari Island will soon be developed.” The signs also threaten anyone who damages or removes them with Article 406(1) of the Criminal Code, which carries a maximum prison sentence of two years and eight months.
Pari Island resident Buyung said some police and security officers, allegedly from PT Bumi Pari Asri, which claims ownership of most of the island’s land, had tried to put up the signs secretly.
“We initially did not know what the signs were about because they were wrapped tightly and stored inside a security post [on Monday]. Residents were suspicious of them,” Buyung, who is a member of advocacy group Care Pari Island Forum (FPPP), told The Jakarta Post on Wednesday.
By the next morning, the signs had already been put up.
Some of the residents asked the security and police officers about them. “The police said the signs were erected on behalf of some of our fellow residents. When we asked them who had requested the installation, the police did not answer,” Buyung said.
