Another clash between the Jakarta administration public order officers and local people over a disputed eviction against a cemetery in Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta.
News portal kompas.com reported that the clash broke at a Cilincing-Dobo traffic junction at around 2 p.m.
Thousands of people were involved fighting against around 2,000 public order officer and 600 police officers.
The clash put traffic on Jl. Cilincing Raya into a halt.
Local people deemed the cemetery called Habib Hasan bin Muhammad al Haddad or Mbah Priok cemetery, as a historical site and vowed to defend it from any eviction plan.
Previously, public order agency head Harianto Badjoeri, said that the body of Habib Hasan, who is a religious leader born in 1727, had been removed to another cemetery.
Harianto said that the administration was attempting to evict illegal building around the cemetery.
“We are not going to evict the cemetery. We are going to renovate it,” he said.
The administration says that the cemetery uses a plot of land belonging to state port operator PT Pelindo II, who plans to construct a canal and a freight terminal using the plot of land.
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