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If there was a contest to select a poster girl for diversity and minority rights, I am sure I would be on the shortlist. I am a ChineseIndonesian, I grew up Catholic and ended my teenage years not subscribing to any religion, and I am a woman.
The late governor Ali Sadikin said in 1977 “people that are forced to live in the margins of the city are those who need more attention and to receive the benefits of development.” Residents replied, “we want to be guided, so that we can do business without the fear of being targeted by the police.”
In response to criticism of his eviction policy, Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama has said the policy was a part of efforts to resolve annual flooding in the capital city, as he had promised during the 2012 gubernatorial election campaign.
Unlike evictions in other areas, residents offered no physical resistance when hundreds of security personnel escorted workers and backhoes to topple their houses in Bukit Duri near Ciliwung River in South Jakarta on Wednesday.
Jakarta Legal Aid (LBH Jakarta) lawyer Alldo Fellix Januardy has accused President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo of forgetting his promise during his gubernatorial campaign in 2012 that he would grant land certificates to residents who had occupied their land for more than 20 years.
With eviction just around the corner, and knowing that they can do little to stop it, most residents of Bukit Duri in South Jakarta have packed their belongings and accepted the city’s offer to be relocated to a low-cost apartment complex (rusunawa).
