Several slum kampungs in northern Jakarta have adopted a collective-housing model and would like the government to know of their success.

Representatives from the kampungs Lodan, Tongkol, Kerapu, Marlina and Akuarium showed that in communities where residents actively participate in remodeling their communal-living space, they can tackle the different challenges they face.

They made their case on Monday during a tour arranged by Rujak Center for Urban Studies that the collective-housing model should be the solution for Jakarta’s slum problems, instead of the forced-relocation method that city administration has employed time and again.

Source:
courtesy of THE JAKARTA POST

by Fikri Harish (The Jakarta Post)

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