[sustran] fwd: update from Jakarta by Urban Poor Consortium -
Konsorsium Ke miskinan Kota
Paul Barter
geobpa at nus.edu.sg
Mon Sep 10 18:22:28 JST 2001
Update of State Violence against the urban poor of
Jakarta, 1 - 6 September 2001
- Becak (pedicab)
Number of becak confiscated by area up to 6 Sept
- Central Jakarta 311
- North Jakarta 321
- West Jakarta 553
- East Jakarta 752
Total 1.937 becaks
- Insidence of violence
Wednesday, 5 Sept. 2001, a confiscation operation was
underway in Teluk Gong, North Jakarta at 05.30 a.m. A
becak driver, Agus Samsudin who alerted his friends by
beating the lamp post was being gang attacked by
around 20 municipality police armed with knife, stick,
and sword. He got severe concussion, was unconscious
for around 10 hours, and the back of his head was
deeply cut for around 10 cm long.He is now
hospitalized.
- Other casualties: demolation and confiscation
604 sidestreet food stalls
253 street vendors
25 car wash services
- Arrest
435 street sex workers
465 beggers and homeless
27 difabled
93 street children
318 informal "traffic policemen"
247 street musicians
386 other street workers
- Demolition of poor communities
716 sacks/houses
Sources: urban poor consortium (primary data: reports
from casualties and field data collection; clippings)
Chronology of events of state violence, year 2001
27 November 2000 - 16 January 2001:
51 operation days (evictions,
demolitions,confiscations, arrest)
victim (vendors, street children, pedicab, etc):
west jakarta: 1503 people
central jkt : 1237 people
south jkt : 9297 people
east jkt : 8813 people
Total 20.850 people
Isidents of retaliation by the people: 4
April 2001
- 20 operation days; personnel deployed: 2800
- Victims: 17.305 people (categories as above:
central jakarta: 2.172 people
north jakarta : 3.369 people
west jakarta : 4.720 people
south jakarta : 4.954 people
east jakarta : 2.090 people
Isidents of retaliation by the people: 3
8 - 29 August 2001
Operation: every day, not only during day time but
also midnight to dawn
8 August2001:
- Eviction and demolition happened in East Jakarta
from 11.00 - 04.00 p.m..
- personnel deployed: 1000, armed with tear gas,
buldozer, trucks, vans
- Victims: 200 food stalls, 30 car wash, and tire
repair stall
13 August 2001, 11.00 p.m.:
- Pedicab confiscation in Central Jakarta
- personnel deployed: 300; 50 vans, 5 trucks,
- Victims: 203 pedicabs confiscated; 1 driver was
arrested and tortured
13 August, 10.00 p.m. - 04 p.m.
- Eviction, demolition and confiscation in East
Jakarta
- personnel deployed: 500 with 20 pick-ups, 10 trucks,
1 buldozer
- victims: 30 garbage collectors workshops; 200
pedicabs
August 14, 09.00 a.m. - 2.00 p.m.
Roxy Insident: a retaliation by the urban poor
(pedicab drivers, street
vendors, childern and others). One municipality guard
died, 1 badly injured,
some cars and trucks burnt.
18 August 2001
Six students from Bonn University, who were guests of
the UPC and were
visiting a poor community in Central Jakarta,1 upc
activist and 1 community
leader were arrested by the police. They were accused
of being involved in the
Roxy incident. They were being detained and questioned
for 20 hours, were
released the next day.
19-29 August 2001
Operations continues to happen in all parts of
Jakarta, confiscating almost one
thousand pedicabs. Some small incidents happened here
and there.
Now thousands of people do not have job to earn money
from and are terrorized.
Chronology of events of state violence, year 2001
27 November 2000 - 16 January 2001:
51 operation days (evictions,
demolitions,confiscations, arrest)
victim (vendors, street children, pedicab, etc):
west jakarta: 1503 people
central jkt : 1237 people
south jkt : 9297 people
east jkt : 8813 people
Total 20.850 people
Isidents of retaliation by the people: 4
April 2001
- 20 operation days; personnel deployed: 2800
- Victims: 17.305 people (categories as above:
central jakarta: 2.172 people
north jakarta : 3.369 people
west jakarta : 4.720 people
south jakarta : 4.954 people
east jakarta : 2.090 people
Isidents of retaliation by the people: 3
8 - 29 August 2001
Operation: every day, not only during day time but
also midnight to dawn
8 August2001:
- Eviction and demolition happened in East Jakarta
from 11.00 - 04.00 p.m..
- personnel deployed: 1000, armed with tear gas,
buldozer, trucks, vans
- Victims: 200 food stalls, 30 car wash, and tire
repair stall
13 August 2001, 11.00 p.m.:
- Pedicab confiscation in Central Jakarta
- personnel deployed: 300; 50 vans, 5 trucks,
- Victims: 203 pedicabs confiscated; 1 driver was
arrested and tortured
13 August, 10.00 p.m. - 04 p.m.
- Eviction, demolition and confiscation in East
Jakarta
- personnel deployed: 500 with 20 pick-ups, 10 trucks,
1 buldozer
- victims: 30 garbage collectors workshops; 200
pedicabs
August 14, 09.00 a.m. - 2.00 p.m.
Roxy Insident: a retaliation by the urban poor
(pedicab drivers, street vendors, childern and
others). One municipality guard died, 1 badly injured,
some cars and trucks burnt.
18 August 2001
Six students from Bonn University, who were guests of
the UPC and were visiting a poor community in Central
Jakarta,1 upc activist and 1 community leader were
arrested by the police. They were accused of being
involved in the Roxy incident. They were being
detained and questioned for 20 hours, were released
the next day.
19-29 August 2001
Operations continues to happen in all parts of
Jakarta, confiscating almost one thousand pedicabs.
Some small incidents happened here and there.
Now thousands of people do not have job to earn money
from and are terrorized.
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Urban Poor Consortium - Konsorsium Kemiskinan Kota
Billy Moon Blok H-I/7 Jakarta 13450, Phone/Fax:
62.21.8642915
Urban Poor Website: http://www.urbanpoor.or.id/
http://welcome.to/urbanpoor/
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