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For me the ocean is like a father and a mother

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to whom I go to and tell what happen to me.

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Caring for their children

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providing them with food and clothes.

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It’s like a refuge

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a place to go to complain of our fate.

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For me, if there’s no ocean there’s no life.

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It’s the source of a fisherman’s livelihood

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Jakarta is known as one of the most populous

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capital cities in the world.

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A vibrant, fast-paced city

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the land of opportunities.

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For Indonesians, if you can make it here

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you can make it anywhere.

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While there is a side of Jakarta that is running fast

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there is another one that is left behind

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and running out of breath.

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By default, cities are places

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with a relatively dense population.

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When you are a human being, you need space

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so that you can grow

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to reach your potential.

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And what we are seeing now

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in many cities around the world

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including Jakarta

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is that the spaces are being treated as commodities

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they become things

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that are bought and sold in the market

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and they are getting more and more expensive

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so there are people who cannot afford the space

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and if there's not enough space for everybody

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you will fight for your own survival.

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Eviction is the easiest way

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or the common way unfortunately

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on how the city government

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is dealing with overpopulation

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because they're considered alien citizens.

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Most most of them are from coming

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from lower class strata

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so it's easier to dismiss.

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However, there are steps before you do

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the eviction that need to be taken

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because it's someone's home.

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Getting your house taken away from you

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after having worked hard for it

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is just completely inhumane.

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The eviction back in 2016 was very sudden

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us, Akuarium residents, didn’t receive any warning.

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Our ID and family certificate with the Aquarium Village address

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were no longer valid.

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We weren’t given any option

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the eviction was executed on the same day.

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Wife: We didn’t pack anything

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Wife: We were forced to leave the house

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we picked what we could, and carried to the boat.

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We moved our belongings to the boat.

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But not all, some were buried in the debris.

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Wife: Some got lost.

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We didn’t focus on saving the belongings.

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We had to save our lives.

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Andini: What was in your head at that time?

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Wife: I could only think of my family’s safety.

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We only lived in the house for a year.

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Wife: We just had our own home, then we were evicted.

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Wife: He worked very hard to make money.

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Wife: Every time he went to the sea

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we saved the money from the catch till we could have a house

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Wife: if we had money, we would built the foundation.

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If we had more, we would fill it with soil.

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Ruji: I can’t forget it.

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I saw my house being torn down in front of me.

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The house that I had to build little by little

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with what little I earned

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It’s like a baby, crawling until he can run.

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We didn’t know where to go.

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My family and younger siblings lived in this boat.

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We were ten people.

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Ten people in total.

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This place was full of our belongings.

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Here is where we stored our belongings.

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Here is where we slept

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and at the back there was our toilet and kitchen.

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For 3 months, 27 families had to survive on the boats.

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After 3 months we built shanties on the land

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where the local administration evicted us.

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There were warnings from local administration

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but we were adamant

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“We will stay until our rights are fulfilled”

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The reason for the eviction was:

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“It’s slummy”

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Yes, I admit it is slummy.

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I admit we lived on the river.

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Some Akuarium villagers built their stilt houses on the river.

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Yes we admit that.

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We coordinated with those living on the river to clean up.

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Communication is very important

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especially if you want to relocate people

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out of their homes

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and also considering what they do for a living.

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Pak Ruji is a fisherman.

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So it's very important for him to be close to the ocean

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So that's why he was like:

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“I don't want to be removed from my home”

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“because it will be so far away from where I work”

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The main reason why I couldn’t accept the eviction

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is because my friends and I, who earn a living as fishermen

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we cannot be separated from the ocean

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we cannot live away from the beach.

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Where should we put our boats?

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The second reason why I can’t accept the eviction is because

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there was no coordination

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no compensation for those affected.

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By forcefully evicting those communities

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we are actually taking away

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the spaces where they have lived in

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in order for them to earn their livelihoods

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as well as in order for them to flourish as human beings.

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Some people in the city are actually being

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sistematically made irrelevant

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by the ways in which the cities are developing.

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The way the city develops

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is actually forgetting its own people

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who are actually

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very significant elements of why

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Jakarta is so significant as it is right now

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and really getting away from

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what a city is supposed to be.

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I was born in this floating village.

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In the past it wasn’t called “Floating Village”

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it was called Teko Village.

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In the past there were a lot of trees here

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such as jackfruit, mango, and guava trees.

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We used to play marbles.

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This village was very beautiful.

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They let overdevelopment here by giving permits

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and now we have to bear the brunt.

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When I went to Kampung Apung

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I was like...

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mind boggling, to be very honest

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to see someone in this day and age

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in Jakarta still living in that condition

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Since this land was higher than the road over there

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when the water in the drain rose

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it spilled over the other road, flooding it.

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So the government or a private company fixed the road

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piling it with soil.

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Since then the other road is higher than ours

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and the water flew here flooding this village.

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We built a bridge, using wood and bamboo.

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But it kept on flooding.

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I am a victim of their negligence.

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They gave permits to companies.

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The road they built is higher than ours

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not thinking about the impact on the poor locals.

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It’s because of human activity

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piling the surrounding land with soil

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leaving this small village left behind and flooded.

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The real people who have been living there for years

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somewhat left behind by this rapid development.

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I remember, it was 2012

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a boy with intellectual challenges fell in the water

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behind his parents’ home.

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He drowned, his body was found floating.

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A month after that

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the same happened to Marsum’s toddler

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he was two years old.

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His mother was asleep when he went to take a leak.

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He fell in the water, his parents saw his body floating.

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I helped bury him. I lowered his body in the grave.

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I did the prayer.

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How can the government people have the heart to see us

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whose life is miserable.

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It’s so tragic.

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It’s a small village surrounded with water for decades.

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I used to live in Kalianyar village.

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I stayed there for 9 years with my wife and her aunt.

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After my wife died, I moved back here in Pekojan (Tambora)

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the place I originally come from.

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This is my house.

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Let me turn on the light.

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Are there three people living here?

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Yes, three.

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Three? Since when did you live here?

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Not very long.

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Before the fire happened

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this neighbourhood was not too crowded.

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There was air to breathe.

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Now there are not many locals here.

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Most of them are outsiders.

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They rent here

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and the houses are divided into smaller rooms.

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I moved back here because I had to

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My children need to be close to my workplace.

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If I lived far,

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I would be worried to leave my kids alone.

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When we moved here, they only said: “dad, it’s dark”

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“Dad it’s hot”

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“Dad, it’s humid’

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Tambora is very crowded.

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What worries me the most

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are the houses catching fire here.

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To prevent fire

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my kids and I have to be careful with short circuit.

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It was in the evening after night pray

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when Nabila saw the fire braking out.

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She was in elementary school

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she was so afraid when she saw it.

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Everybody evacuated.

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Everybody was afraid and crying.

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Nabila cried too.

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Some Kampungs (traditional village)

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are getting

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denser and denser as time goes by.

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Housing is one of the basic needs and it relates directly

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to the amount of space that everyone needs.

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In many cities in Indonesia

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the provision of housing

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is given to the private sector

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that will charge a profit margin

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this means that there will be challenges

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in providing affordable housing for the population.

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In this case, the kampungs

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become the go-to places

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for people to settle

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because kampungs will absorb the population

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and provide them with affordable housing.

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When there is a high influx of migrants

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and there is this densification of cities

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people have to live with lesser space

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while the kampungs are not growing in size.

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And that results in the very dense places that we see now.

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When we were in Tambora

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my main issue was that

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I couldn't breathe properly.

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I couldn't imagine the health issues their are facing

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on a daily basis.

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I can never imagine living

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with that small of a space

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with that lot of people around you.

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The solutions are always the difficult ones.

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But if we go back to the root of the problem

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which is that spaces are always seen

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as something to make profit from

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we can start seeing initiatives

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of communities that are outside

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the mechanism of “commodification of space”

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and really more focusing into the human flourishing part of it.

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In Jakarta there are pockets of communities

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that have all these ideas for solutions

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from the ground up.

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And one of the examples is

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urban farming in local communities.

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While maybe it's not producing enough food

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for the community, but it brings people together.

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And when we talk about the city

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it's actually about people coming together.

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With the urban farming we answer the problem of land scarcity.

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Here the land is limited especially in Cempaka Putih area.

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That’s why we started urban farming using hydroponic.

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This has been a residential area since long ago

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but it was not managed well and kept untidy

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there weren’t many trees and plant

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garbage was everywhere

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the gutter drainage was on the streets and in the alleways.

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Now the community practices a clean and healthy lifestyle

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and is responsible for and cares about the environment.

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If our neighbourhood is clean, it is good for our health.

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Plants are beneficial not only for greening purposes

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but we can also consume them, such as leaves or fruits.

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As for vegetables, the hydroponic method

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is available across the neighbourhood.

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And people have seen the benefits of having food security.

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Urban farming is not only about vegetable farming

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but it also became a blessing for the residents.

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It's very doable

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because the question on land scarcity has been answered.

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Land scarcity is not the reason of not doing it

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people can use a very small space for urban farming.

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We can create our own food security system

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without having to get it from outside this village.

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In terms of climate change mitigation and prevention,

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urban farming practice can absorb carbon and produce oxygen.

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This reduces gas emissions on top of managing our own waste.

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It’s doable and can be replicated.

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Land is important

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but no land is not an excuse for not having

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environment-related activities, especially urban farming.

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Currently there are 721 households

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participating in environmental activities.

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We continue disseminating the movement

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we cannot stop promoting it in order to change’s people’s habit.

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Never in a million years.

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I would imagine Jakarta will have alleys where it's

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very green and communities get-together-

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to make sure that they have

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a space that is livable, that is healthy.

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It's quite a rare sight in Jakarta

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and I wish that we can implement that

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in other parts of the city.

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So there would be a knowledge of

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how much we need to be close to nature

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In 2018

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we were noticed that our family certificates and address

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were returned, re-activated.

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We were provided with a home.

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It was inaugurated on August 17th

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but we started to occupy it on September 1st.

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I was very happy. I was overjoyed.

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I want my daughters to have a better life than I do

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I hope they can go to school.

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And forgive their past.

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The land where I was born will be underwarter

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in ten to twenty years.

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I really miss to be able to step on the ground

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like when I was little.

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I want to step on the ground. Is it possible to return it back?

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At last we were treated like humans.

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Our rights acknowledged and so our needs.

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Thank God. Our patience and prayers paid off.