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)