Evicted Child
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
With an empty gaze, the child was leaning on a cabinet with its contents already scattered around. Behind her were rubble and a rumbling bulldozer. Her parents’ house in Pedongkelan, East Jakarta, had been a target of demolition by Jakarta security personnel. There, people’s dwellings were indeed on the government’s land. But the child could not understand. She lost her home, her playground. Looking at this picture can make us feel the sadn
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