Friday, March 07, 2008

Face-lift a city, and the poor get screwed...

Like dozens of others at the streetside ceramics market in north Jakarta, Neslon had been selling dishes out of a small kiosk in the shadow of a highway for more than 30 years.

Then, early one recent morning, the police moved in with wrecking equipment and within hours reduced the market to a pile of collapsed shops and shattered plates. And then they set it on fire.

"We didn't get to talk to anyone about this, to find a solution or a place for us to go," Neslon said, surveying the site the next day, looking for anything he could salvage from the smoldering ruins. "Now I have no idea what I will do." More...

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