Jakarta is the capital city of Indonesia and also metropolitan city. Amid the frenetic capital, we can see the contrast between the have and the have not. It is ironic, you can found luxurious house and almost 65% circulation of money in Indonesia taken place in this city, but in the other hand you can found poverty.
The poor in Jakarta are the people that can not compete with another people because they did not have enough education and skill. Most of them are immigrant from the rural area and mostly from Java (because of the ease of transportation) but also from another region in Indonesia (i.e. Sumatera and Sulawesi). It means that the poor are heterogeneous. They live in slum areas. Mostly the slum area located near with the river or the rail road or under the bridge or near with rail way station or bus station or traditional market. Their live are haunted by flooding (since Jakarta is vulnerable with flood) and eviction from the government officer because they live illegally. The poorest live in the street.
Based on the National Statistic Bureau’s data, the numbers of the poor in Jakarta are decrease. In 2008, there are 379.600 people and in 2009 there are 323.170 people or 3.62% (BPS, 2009). But I am sure that in the reality the number might be bigger than that data, and the number of the poor are increase, because every year a lot people come to Jakarta to find a job and some of them did not have enough education and skill so they can not find job and increase the number of the poor in Jakarta.
The condition in the slum area are getting worse, because of too much people come, and make the slum are more crowded. It worsened by the environmental degradation, like in case of rubbish, flood, etc. The poverty gave impact to women and men differently, and also to the children. Most of them both women and men are working in the informal sector. Mostly the men jobs are scavengers (by using small ship), sailor, worker in the fish exporter company, street musician, beggars. And for the women, their jobs are scavengers, beggars and domestic worker. Even for the pregnant women, they should still work. Different with men, besides generating income, women should do the reproductive work. Most of them have a lot of children, because of the expensive price of the contraception so they can not access it. The women also face difficulties when she having a birth, because the expensive cost of the hospital. The government giving subsidiary for health access but it’s only for the Jakarta citizen. Unfortunately most of them did not have Jakarta ID Card.
Poverty also give impact differently to the children, they live in the unsafe condition. They were growing faster than their age, i.e. because of the small size of the house so children know the sexual activity of their parents. Children have less immunity than adult, so living in the slum area giving different impact to the adult and children. Poverty also gives different impact between girls and boys. Because of the economic condition, the children can not attend school. The girls take care of their little sister or brother and doing reproductive job while the boy working in the informal sector as a scavenger, street musician, etc. And also in case of drugs and alcohol, most of the children who use it are boys. For the street children, they are vulnerable with sexual harassment. There are some cases of sodomy and rape which appear in the newspaper, but I think the number of that case is big, just like iceberg phenomenon.
The poor in Jakarta are the people that can not compete with another people because they did not have enough education and skill. Most of them are immigrant from the rural area and mostly from Java (because of the ease of transportation) but also from another region in Indonesia (i.e. Sumatera and Sulawesi). It means that the poor are heterogeneous. They live in slum areas. Mostly the slum area located near with the river or the rail road or under the bridge or near with rail way station or bus station or traditional market. Their live are haunted by flooding (since Jakarta is vulnerable with flood) and eviction from the government officer because they live illegally. The poorest live in the street.
Based on the National Statistic Bureau’s data, the numbers of the poor in Jakarta are decrease. In 2008, there are 379.600 people and in 2009 there are 323.170 people or 3.62% (BPS, 2009). But I am sure that in the reality the number might be bigger than that data, and the number of the poor are increase, because every year a lot people come to Jakarta to find a job and some of them did not have enough education and skill so they can not find job and increase the number of the poor in Jakarta.
The condition in the slum area are getting worse, because of too much people come, and make the slum are more crowded. It worsened by the environmental degradation, like in case of rubbish, flood, etc. The poverty gave impact to women and men differently, and also to the children. Most of them both women and men are working in the informal sector. Mostly the men jobs are scavengers (by using small ship), sailor, worker in the fish exporter company, street musician, beggars. And for the women, their jobs are scavengers, beggars and domestic worker. Even for the pregnant women, they should still work. Different with men, besides generating income, women should do the reproductive work. Most of them have a lot of children, because of the expensive price of the contraception so they can not access it. The women also face difficulties when she having a birth, because the expensive cost of the hospital. The government giving subsidiary for health access but it’s only for the Jakarta citizen. Unfortunately most of them did not have Jakarta ID Card.
Poverty also give impact differently to the children, they live in the unsafe condition. They were growing faster than their age, i.e. because of the small size of the house so children know the sexual activity of their parents. Children have less immunity than adult, so living in the slum area giving different impact to the adult and children. Poverty also gives different impact between girls and boys. Because of the economic condition, the children can not attend school. The girls take care of their little sister or brother and doing reproductive job while the boy working in the informal sector as a scavenger, street musician, etc. And also in case of drugs and alcohol, most of the children who use it are boys. For the street children, they are vulnerable with sexual harassment. There are some cases of sodomy and rape which appear in the newspaper, but I think the number of that case is big, just like iceberg phenomenon.
-
|
0 Response to "Djakarta"
Posting Komentar