Slum residents perform at TIM

Slum residents perform at TIM

JAKARTA (JP): Slum residents, rejecting the label of looters
and rioters apparently given to them, are participating in a
performance and installation exhibition under the theme public
witness, organizers said.

In a release from the Urban Poor Consortium received yesterday
by The Jakarta Post, organizers said residents of Jelambar Baru
in West Jakarta and Pulogadung in East Jakarta will be among
participants at the event held at Taman Ismail Marzuki arts
center. The event will be held Saturday evening and is free.

Titled Kompor Mledug, Gue Kapok Jadi Rakyat (The Stove
Exploded, I'm Fed up with being a Little Person), the production
also involves community activists, workers and artists. (anr)