Catch Me if You Can

The rules are there on paper, but in reality taking down villas in the Puncak area is no easy task. The existing regulations simply do not have teeth and the authorities are up against well-connected and wealthy owners.

February 26, 2002

Apart from rain and salted vegetables, Bogor was for a while very famous for the bulldozer. That was 17 years ago. On the evening of May 18, 1985, at the Bukit Garden village complex in the area of Puncak, Major Fauzi Siin gave the order for his `forces' to make the assault. They were a combined team of around 50 police and soldiers, supplemented with civilian defense units. A little while later a bulldozer pushed three houses into rubble. It

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