REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- After Rawajati eviction a couple weeks ago (9/1), the government has continued its plan to evict residents in another area of South Jakarta.
On Wednesday (9/28) morning, four excavators flattened 320 houses in the banks of Ciliwung River.
The residents were trying hard not to clashed with the authorities, they hopelessly sang patriotic song and cried "Allahu Akbar (God is the Greatest)"!
The government deployed 550 joint personnel to evict houses from four community unit, RW 09, 10, 11 and 12.
These 1,7 hectare evicted area was a part of the Ciliwung River normalization project.
"Before the eviction, as much as 313 resident of Bukit Duri has already relocated in the flat provided by the governent at Rawa Bebek, East Jakarta," Tebet sub-disctric head Mahludin said.
There were another 70 units in the Rawa Bebek flat that have not been occupied by the residents.
In addition, there are about 68 families who refused to be relocated. As many as 52 families have map of the field, but the other 14 did not. They wanted to wait for their class-action lawsuit against the proposed Ciliwung RIver project at the Central Jakarta District Court.
"We did not know about Ciliwung normalization project since the Jakarta government never give transparrent information ," Santi Napitupulu, one of Bukit Duri resident, said on Tuesday (9/27).
Meanwhile, activist from Jakarta Legal Aid Institute (LBH Jakarta), Citra Referendum said the Law No. 11 of 2005 on the Rights of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (UU ESC) has stated that the deliberations sincere become one of the elements that must be met by the government before eviction.
"Democratic and participatory process was never carried out by the government of Jakarta to the people of Bukit Duri. Therefore we asses Jakarta Provincial Government forced evictions by not fulfilling all its obligations before displacing as stipulated in the Act as ESC," she said.
LBH Jakarta documented in the last one year, there were 30 cases of foced evictions and more than 87 percent had been forcibly evicted without any dialogue or persuasive approach.
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