Evictees want to rebuild homes

Evictees want to rebuild homes

JAKARTA: People evicted from Lorong W Barat in Tanjung Priok,
North Jakarta, remain determined to rebuild their houses, which
were demolished on Wednesday.

"We are not homeless, we have the right to stay here. The
government should pay us for the damage," Sudjono was quoted as
saying by Antara on Friday.

On Wednesday, the evictees hurled stones to stop dozens of
public order officers, the police and military troops from
bulldozing 74 houses lining a railroad track.

The government plans to reuse the idle railroad, which was
previously used to transport containers from Pasusu Port to
Tanjung Priok Port.

At least 25 squatters, many of them housewives, were injured
in violent clashes that erupted during the eviction. -- JP

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House hears more on Bojong dump
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House hears more on Bojong dump

JAKARTA: House of Representatives again invited officials of
Jakarta, West Java and Bogor regental administrations to attend a
hearing on Friday on the controversial Bojong waste treatment
facility in Bogor for Jakarta's garbage.

The hearing on the issue was the second after November,
several days after violent clashes between police guarding the
dump and protesting residents. A part of the facility was
damaged, while dozens of residents were arrested. The residents
are currently being tried in court.

Bogor Regent Agus Utara Effendi said the administration had
allowed the dump operator to go ahead with a trial run, "but
there should be a guarantee that the technology used is
environmentally friendly ... a third independent party should
also be invited to assess the trial run".

However, Bogor Council speaker Ahmad Yasin said that the dump
operator had yet to coordinate with the Jakarta administration.
"Moreover, we suspect outsiders provoked the residents to protest
the presence of the dump." -- Antara