Getting people out of their cars
What Teguh is writing (above) is .... well, starry-eyed ... the JK administration doesn't give a hoot about people! Sutiyoso is a dastardly figure, about whom I heard the most disgusting things!
And here's what ParasIndo says about the wonderful city admin .... LISTEN UP!
The Jakarta city administration's effort to reduce traffic congestion by requiring private cars to have at least three occupants when traveling on major thoroughfares during peak traffic hours has for years been a joke because they can simply hire "jockeys" - youths and women standing at the entrances to the restricted zones - to make up the numbers. Crackdowns on jockeys are rare - but rather than punish the motorists who hire them, municipal public order officials prefer to go after the easier targets.
In the most recent case of abuse the victim was an unemployed woman, Sugiharti (36), who was carrying her infant daughter Susan while standing on Jalan Imam Bonjol, waiting for a motorist to pay her a few thousand rupiah to become a part-time passenger. But the vehicle that stopped for her on September 5 contained members of the SATPOL PP (Municipal Police Unit - Satuan Polisi Pamong Praja), who roughly apprehended the mother and child. The officials then decided to punish Sugiharti by shaving off all of her hair.
During the raid, the officials nabbed seven other jockeys. Sugiharti said the officials behaved like drunkards, chasing the jockeys as if they were animals, before subjecting them to kicks and punches. The mother and daughter were subsequently detained for nine days at the Kedoya Women's Social Rehabilitation Center in West Jakarta. The place is usually used to detain street prostitutes or destitute women and beggars caught without city residency cards.
"I heard the Kedoya Center official complain about the 'latest consignment from Menteng'. There are always some people [from there] who are casualties of violence," said Sugiharti.
Upon her release, she made a complaint at the Jakarta office of the Legal Aid Association (LBH). "I was shaved bald in front of my child. I did not have the power to resist. My child cried hysterically upon seeing her mother treated like that. My cheeks were also slapped," she was quoted as saying Thursday (14/9/06) by detikcom online news portal.
She said she had long worked as a jockey on Jalan Imam Bonjol in order to help her family make ends meet. These days jockeys can be paid up to Rp10,000 for helping motorists to beat the traffic.
Sugiharti said that when the raid occurred, she tried to run away; but carrying her child, she was no match for the fleet-footed SATPOL PP. Before being taken to the Kedoya center, she was brought to Menteng Subdistrict Office, where she was slapped and shaved.
When filing her complaint at the LBH office, she removed a scarf to reveal her mottled scalp. "In fact, my hair used to reach my shoulders. This is a matter of self-esteem. I'm now embarrassed to socialize with my neighbors," she said. She and her neighbors live under a bridge at the city's Cikini railway station.
Sugiharti's lawyer Hermawanto responded quickly to the report and filed a complaint at Jakarta Police headquarters. "Today we will also go to the [Menteng] Regional Police. This is a criminal case involving abusive action," he said.
The lawyer also said there were strong indications the public order officials had violated laws on human rights and the protection of children by detaining Susan for nine days. "She was detained with her mother for nine days at the Kedoya Social Center for nine days. Susan was treated as an adult."
Hermawanto criticized Municipal Regulation No.11/1988, which enables city officials to round up and arrest jockeys and other impoverished people. He said the policy was merely an effort by the city administration to camouflage the root cause of the city's social problems - poverty. "This Municipal Regulation is a hellish regulation for Jakarta's poor. We will continue to campaign for regulations of this kind to be revoked," he said.
Regulation No.11/1988 also prohibits people from living along riverbanks, under flyover bridges or near railway tracks. Homeless and landless people who build shelters in these areas face three to six months imprisonment or monetary fines.
Jakarta Governor Sutiyoso has defended the policy, saying it is needed to clean up the city.
And here's what ParasIndo says about the wonderful city admin .... LISTEN UP!
The Jakarta city administration's effort to reduce traffic congestion by requiring private cars to have at least three occupants when traveling on major thoroughfares during peak traffic hours has for years been a joke because they can simply hire "jockeys" - youths and women standing at the entrances to the restricted zones - to make up the numbers. Crackdowns on jockeys are rare - but rather than punish the motorists who hire them, municipal public order officials prefer to go after the easier targets.
In the most recent case of abuse the victim was an unemployed woman, Sugiharti (36), who was carrying her infant daughter Susan while standing on Jalan Imam Bonjol, waiting for a motorist to pay her a few thousand rupiah to become a part-time passenger. But the vehicle that stopped for her on September 5 contained members of the SATPOL PP (Municipal Police Unit - Satuan Polisi Pamong Praja), who roughly apprehended the mother and child. The officials then decided to punish Sugiharti by shaving off all of her hair.
During the raid, the officials nabbed seven other jockeys. Sugiharti said the officials behaved like drunkards, chasing the jockeys as if they were animals, before subjecting them to kicks and punches. The mother and daughter were subsequently detained for nine days at the Kedoya Women's Social Rehabilitation Center in West Jakarta. The place is usually used to detain street prostitutes or destitute women and beggars caught without city residency cards.
"I heard the Kedoya Center official complain about the 'latest consignment from Menteng'. There are always some people [from there] who are casualties of violence," said Sugiharti.
Upon her release, she made a complaint at the Jakarta office of the Legal Aid Association (LBH). "I was shaved bald in front of my child. I did not have the power to resist. My child cried hysterically upon seeing her mother treated like that. My cheeks were also slapped," she was quoted as saying Thursday (14/9/06) by detikcom online news portal.
She said she had long worked as a jockey on Jalan Imam Bonjol in order to help her family make ends meet. These days jockeys can be paid up to Rp10,000 for helping motorists to beat the traffic.
Sugiharti said that when the raid occurred, she tried to run away; but carrying her child, she was no match for the fleet-footed SATPOL PP. Before being taken to the Kedoya center, she was brought to Menteng Subdistrict Office, where she was slapped and shaved.
When filing her complaint at the LBH office, she removed a scarf to reveal her mottled scalp. "In fact, my hair used to reach my shoulders. This is a matter of self-esteem. I'm now embarrassed to socialize with my neighbors," she said. She and her neighbors live under a bridge at the city's Cikini railway station.
Sugiharti's lawyer Hermawanto responded quickly to the report and filed a complaint at Jakarta Police headquarters. "Today we will also go to the [Menteng] Regional Police. This is a criminal case involving abusive action," he said.
The lawyer also said there were strong indications the public order officials had violated laws on human rights and the protection of children by detaining Susan for nine days. "She was detained with her mother for nine days at the Kedoya Social Center for nine days. Susan was treated as an adult."
Hermawanto criticized Municipal Regulation No.11/1988, which enables city officials to round up and arrest jockeys and other impoverished people. He said the policy was merely an effort by the city administration to camouflage the root cause of the city's social problems - poverty. "This Municipal Regulation is a hellish regulation for Jakarta's poor. We will continue to campaign for regulations of this kind to be revoked," he said.
Regulation No.11/1988 also prohibits people from living along riverbanks, under flyover bridges or near railway tracks. Homeless and landless people who build shelters in these areas face three to six months imprisonment or monetary fines.
Jakarta Governor Sutiyoso has defended the policy, saying it is needed to clean up the city.