The land that will be turned into a new rusun (affordable housing)\nnear the railway embankment close to Tanah Abang Station in Central\nJakarta was previously a slum settlement and illegal entertainment area.\nPeople called it a \u2018red district\u2019. However, the land is now used for\nvehicle parking.<\/p>\n
The location is near Jalan Jati Bunder and Jalan Jembatan Tinggi, or\nbehind Tanah Abang Market Block G. This land is actually called \u201cLahan\nBongkaran\u201d.<\/p>\n
According to security personnel near the land, it was originally a\nslum area near the railway tracks and was planned to be demolished\nduring Governor Fauzi Bowo\u2019s (Foke) period. However, the demolition was\nonly realised during Governor Joko Widodo\u2019s (Jokowi) tenure.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was actually a slum settlement here, planned since Mr Foke\u2019s time\nto build rusun, but it wasn\u2019t achieved,\u201d said a resident at the location\nwhen met on Thursday (9\/4\/2026).<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, after the demolition during Governor Jokowi\u2019s era, the\nrusun construction was not realised again. However, since then, the land\nhas been fenced off by PT Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero).<\/p>\n
Although fenced, traders returned to the land and used it for\nselling, so it also became the location of Pasar Tasik before being\nmoved to Cideng in 2018.<\/p>\n
After that, the land remained empty and the rusun construction was\nstill not realised. In the end, the land was used as a parking area for\nlogistics trucks and traders\u2019 private vehicles.<\/p>\n
\u201cBasically, since Foke\u2019s time, through Jokowi\u2019s time as Governor of\nDKI Jakarta, even until now, the construction has never been realised,\nso it stayed empty, and because it was empty, it was used for parking,\u201d\nhe explained.<\/p>\n
For information, Lahan Bongkaran was once a prostitution location in\nTanah Abang. This location was also cleaned up in relation to the rules\nlaunched by Governor Jokowi and his Deputy Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok)\nin 2013.<\/p>\n
Actually, Bongkaran has been cleaned up many times starting from the\nearly 1980s. Even so, dirty transactions still occurred there.<\/p>\n
The place was so hidden that during Deputy Governor Ahok\u2019s period, he\nadmitted he previously did not know there was a prostitution site in the\nTanah Abang area.<\/p>", "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/site-of-maruarar-hercules-argument-in-tanah-abang-was-once-a-red-district-1775811056", "image": "" }, "sponsor": "Okusi Associates", "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com" }