Outsiders begin to flood Jakarta<\/p>\n
Rendi A. Witular, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
Over the past four days, some 250,000 people have returned to
\nJakarta through one of the city's three major bus stations of
\nPulo Gadung and Kampung Rambutan, both in East Jakarta, and Lebak
\nBulus in South Jakarta.<\/p>\n
Some of them have brought along their unskilled friends and
\nrelatives to find jobs.<\/p>\n
Sutini, 46, who had just arrived from Kuningan, West Java,
\ntold The Jakarta Post at the Pulo Gadung bus station on Friday
\nthat she had brought along her three nieces, all junior high
\nschool graduates, to work in Jakarta.<\/p>\n
Sutini, who currently works as a laborer for a company
\nproducing plastic items, located in Pulo Gadung, East Jakarta,
\nadmitted that her nieces did not have any skills, and moreover,
\nthey did not yet have the slightest idea of what to do in
\nJakarta.<\/p>\n
Yet, they were determined to work here as they believed there
\nwould be jobs for them, while there were no job opportunities at
\nall in their hometown.<\/p>\n
Another villager, Sutikno, 35, who had just got off an
\nintercity bus from Sumedang, West Java, at the Kampung Rambutan
\nstation, admitted that he had brought along his sister in law to
\nwork in Jakarta.<\/p>\n
\"She is unskilled and doesn't have a job yet, but she will
\nwork here to get experience,\" he said hurriedly as he rushed to
\nget a city bus.<\/p>\n
The city population agency estimated that 225,000 unskilled
\nnewcomers would enter the city after Idul Fitri. It is 10 percent
\nless than last year's figure.<\/p>",
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