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