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[See "The Peoples Democratic Party and Indonesia's poor majority" for background to this story.]
By Peter Boyle, photos by Ulfa Ilyas
March 19, 2010 -- Hundreds residents of the urban slum village of Kampung Guji Baru in West Jakarta besieged office of Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo from early in the morning on March 18 to reject the planned their eviction of their settlement. The residents demanded that the governor immediately stop the eviction plans which would rob the poor residents of their rights of occupancy and ownership.