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developing countries, including Indonesia. One
of them is in Jakarta, which is the nation’s center
of urbanization.

Long History

During the Dutch colonial period, Batavia was
formed with many large residential areas, in
order to distinguish areas of the Dutch noblemen
with the natives. One of the residential areas is
Kampung Jawa in Mangga Dua, West Jakarta.

Quoted from the jakarta.go.id website, Kampung
Jawa is one of the old villages in Jakarta. In the
past, it housed soldiers of Sultan Agung who
chose to stay after the attack on Batavia in 1628-
1629. The citizens were highly suspected and
labeled bad by the VOC at that time. Hence, the
image of Jakarta villages as slum and far from
proper residential area becomes a challenge
that needs to be handled by the government.

Still, all of those kampungs are part of Jakarta.
They support the capital city of Jakarta and
often becomes the house for workers, both
workers in formal and informal sectors, which
is one of the factors driving Jakarta’s economy.

Referring to a study by Jakarta Statistics Agency
(BPS) in 2017, 445 (86%) community units (RW)
in Jakarta were categorized as slums and 15
(3.37%) RWs were categorized as poor slums,
that includes the Kampung Aquarium, Kampung
Tanah Merah, Kampung Kunir, Kampung Tongkol
and so on.

Under the governance Anies Baswedan, these
villages were rejuvenated. Last year, during
the announcement of the construction of
Kampung Aquarium, Anies said the government

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