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Jakarta’s Slum-Dwellers Resist Attempts to Clean Rivers

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Aug 22, 2015
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Jakarta’s governor, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, has kicked off a firestorm with his attempts to clean up slums along the notoriously polluted Ciliwung River, with more than 2,200 National Police officers and the Indonesian military deployed in the effort to evict rock- and Molotov cocktail- throwing slum residents.

The city government two months ago ordered …

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