TNI Executes Eviction of Official Residence in Hankam Slipi by End of April

Negotiations between the occupants of the official residences in the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) Headquarters complex in Slipi, West Jakarta, and TNI officials have resulted in an agreement setting a deadline for evacuation until 30 April 2026. This outcome was reached after discussions lasting nearly two hours on Thursday, 16 April 2026.

One of the residents, Aa Auliasa Ariawan, stated that the negotiations were held to find a middle ground amid plans for eviction execution. “We negotiated with TNI Headquarters officials, and it was agreed that we are given time until 30 April 2026 to vacate the houses. If not, they will be vacated by force,” Aa said when met at the location.

Tempo observations noted that dozens of TNI personnel had been on standby since morning, holding an assembly in the complex’s auditorium field. Several buses and trucks were parked nearby. TNI personnel moved towards the houses listed for evacuation. Before executing, they opened communication and negotiations with the residents.

In the discussions, both parties addressed the legal position of the residents who are currently filing a cassation appeal. Aa mentioned that TNI Headquarters is open to the possibility if the cassation decision is issued before the deadline and favours the residents. In that case, the eviction would not proceed.

“If the cassation is issued within these two weeks and we win, we will convey that TNI cannot carry out the eviction,” he said.

However, if the cassation decision is issued after the 30 April deadline, while the houses have already been vacated, the residents are said to have the right to re-execute. This became one of the points agreed upon in the negotiations.

During the negotiations, the residents also proposed requests for compensation in the form of condolence money or alternative relocation. However, TNI Headquarters rejected these requests. “There is no compensation,” Aa said.

Additionally, the proposal for the houses to be transferred to active soldiers through an over-VB (Verhuis Besluit) mechanism was also not granted. According to Aa, the rejection was based on the residents’ status, having previously received eviction warning letters.

Ahead of the eviction execution, the official residence occupants in the TNI Headquarters Slipi complex had received a series of warning letters from TNI Headquarters Military Police Commander Brigadier General Hamonangan Lumbantoruan. Four warnings were recorded, with the last letter numbered B/351/III/2026 dated 27 March 2026, containing notification of forced evacuation and plans to cut off electricity supply.

This dispute had previously been taken to the legal route. Aa, along with eleven other residents, sued several state officials at the East Jakarta District Court in a case registered since 2018. The lawsuit was directed at the TNI Commander, TNI Headquarters Military Police Commander, and related ministries, with the core issue being the status of the official residences they occupy.

However, the lawsuit was not granted up to the appeal level. The residents then filed a cassation on 11 November 2025, while pursuing other efforts by writing to President Prabowo Subianto and related officials. To date, the cassation process shows no progress because the application has not yet obtained a registration number at the Supreme Court.

TNI Information Centre Head Major General Aulia Dwi Nasrullah stated that the official residence evacuation process has gone through the applicable stages and is being carried out gradually. According to him, TNI has repeatedly notified the residents before the eviction execution.

“The staging in the house evacuation certainly goes through a process that has been done gradually, starting from the notification to the subsequent notifications. I think the process is already running and all stages have been carried out,” he said when met at the Parliament Complex, Jakarta, on Thursday, 16 April 2026.

Meanwhile, Auliasa Ariawan denied that the houses in the Hankam Slipi Complex, West Jakarta, were built using state funds. “The construction used money from severance pay when leaving hotels, lodgings, or dormitories,” he said.

He explained that the construction of the Hankam Slipi Complex began in 1966. The house construction coincided with an order from the Minister/Commander of the Army (Menpangad) that all TNI soldiers must no longer stay in hotels or lodgings. At that time, TNI soldiers staying in hotels or lodgings were given two choices: receiving severance pay to leave the hotel or severance pay to build houses.

Auliasa’s parents, along with several other TNI soldiers at the time, chose to use their severance pay to build houses. Meanwhile, some other soldiers chose to take the severance pay and build their own houses elsewhere.

The severance money provided by the government to members who built their own houses outside the Hankam Complex was Rp 750,000 in 1969. “Those who took the severance pay and built their own outside the Hankam complex had no issues,” he said.

However, currently, the inherited houses from Auliasa’s parents and others are to be reclaimed by TNI because they are claimed as official residences. “Even though those houses were built from our parents’ severance pay.”