[sustran] Re: FW: Update, Jakarta Issue [LOCOA]

[rasagam]

Hi Paul (Butarbutar?),

I would guess that the reasons for the government action are as follows:

1. appear to be seen to be cleaning up the streets and removing all
obstructions to the free flow of cars i.e. improving transportation!

2. easier to pick on the poor and defenceless than the car owning middle and
upper class

3. some hidden local political or business elite agenda that we will
discover in the near future!!

Ganesh


----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul" <paul at swisscontact.or.id>
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Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 5:48 PM
Subject: [sustran] Re: FW: Update, Jakarta Issue [LOCOA]


> Hi, Paul,
> it is good that you share this information with other people. But I think,
> to have a balance information, please check also with government why they
> do all of this. I am sure they don't do that just for fun, it must be a
> reason.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul Butarbutar
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Barter [SMTP:geobpa at nus.edu.sg]
> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 10:20 AM
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> Subject: [sustran] FW: Update, Jakarta Issue [LOCOA]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hyowoo na [mailto:locoa2000 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Saturday, 29 September 2001 10:22
> To: Kirtee Shah; Mr. Leo Shah; Rajesh Shah; Myung&nbsp;Ho Shin; SeungMin
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> Subject: Update, Jakarta Issue [LOCOA]
>
>
>            UPDATE,August 15 to 26 September 2001
>                   - Jakarta, Indonesia -
>
> A. NUMBER OF CASUALTIES OF STATE VIOLENCE
> AGAINST THE URBAN POOR OF JAKARTA
>
> 1. Confiscated becak
> "X Central Jakarta                 1904
> "X North Jakarta 2283
> "X West Jakarta 2665
> "X East Jakarta 2147
> Total number who lost jobs        8,999
>
> This means 8999 people lost their jobs, thus the same
> number of families lost their earnings.
>
> 2. Food vendors (evicted, demolished) 71.857
> 3. Car wash service (demolished)            40
> 4. Houses (demolished) 1.010
> Total number of people lost jobs 72.907
>
> 3. Urban poor arrested/detained
> "X 436 street sex workers
> "X 23 lepers and mentally disturbed
> "X 12 alms collectors
> "X 735 beggars and homeless
> "X 27 difables
> "X 95 stree children
> "X 329 ??informal?? traffic policemen
> "X 250 street musicians
> "X 386 others
>   3.293 Total
>
> 4. Houses demolished 1.010
>
>
> B. Chornology of Urban Poor Resistance
>
> 5. September 2001-09-26
> Pademangan Subdistrict, North Jakarta
> Confiscation of becak started at 02.00 a.m. One becak
> driver was shot by the police in a physical
> confrontation that followed. Becak drivers, street
> vendors and others retaliated, they attacked
> Pademangan sub-district office, resulted in glass
> windows, the foor and the front gate of the office all
> broken.
>
> Teluk Gong, North Jakarta
> Confiscation operation started by 04.30 a.m. One becak
> driver who alerted his friends by beating the lamp
> post was gang-beaten by around 20 municipality
> security guards; his skull was 10cm fractured.
> 7 September 2001: Muara Angke, North Jakarta
> A physical confrontation between becak drivers, food
> vendors and others with municipality security guards
> has resulted in 5 becak drivers badly injured.
>
> 11 September 2001: Muara Baru, North Jakarta
> Hundreds of becak drivers demonstrated at the Muara
> Baru village office that resulted in the village head
> agreed to stop becak eviction in the area.
>
> 13 September 2001: Jelambar Baru, West Jakarta
> Confiscation of becaks happened in Jelambar Baru the
> day before. Hundreds of becak drivers, food vendors
> and others attacked Jelambar Baru village office. The
> glass windows, doors and roof were broken.
>
> 15 September 2001: Municipality Office of East Jakarta
> More than 500 becak drivers, street vendors, street
> children and others attacked EastJakarta municipality
> office, resulted in glass doors, windows and roof were
> broken and 1 bus ruined.
>
> One becak driver was badhly hurt in the head, 4 others
> were detained in the Jakarta police headquarters. They
> were interrogated, beaten and was jailed in a very
> small room together with around 15 more people.
>
> 17 September 2001: Kalianyar, West Jakarta
> A municipality team confiscated a number of becaks in
> Kalianyar. Hundreds of urban poor, the majority of
> whom were becak drivers then attacked the village
> office. They threw stones to the building, the glass
> windows and doors of the office.
>
> Three becak drivers were arrested, one was released on
> 21 September, the other two were still detained in the
> police precinct of Tambora, West Jakarta. The two were
> beaten.
>
> 25 September 2001: Angke, North Jakarta
> 1 becak in Angke, North Jakarta and 5 in Kwitang,
> Central Jakarta wre confiscated.
>
> 26 September 2001: Sunter, Central Jakarta
> 16 becaks were confiscated, the team involved hundreds
> of policemen, mobile brigade, the army and
> municipality security guards.
>
> Sources: UPC (field data and clippings)
>
>
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