City asked to help those evicted

City asked to help those evicted

JAKARTA: The City Council called on the city administration to
provide assistance to more than 3,000 illegal squatters along
West Flood Canal in Penjaringan, North Jakarta, who have been
rendered homeless after their shacks were demolished by the
authorities on Monday.

"The administration must help them," said Maringan
Pangaribuan, head of Commission A at City Council.

Maringan lambasted the administration's forcible manner in
demolishing the illegal squatters, voicing similar criticism made
by the National Commission for Human Rights.

Around 600 shacks huddled along a two-kilometer-stretch of the
canal were bulldozed in the raid. --JP