APD2 Asian People's Dialogue 2 

Building a network of grassroots groups and their supporters across Indonesia to find collective solutions to big problems of urban poverty . . .

The international groups 
came from 11 countries: Namibia, South Africa, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Thailand, the Philippines, Pakistan, Korea, Nepal, Malaysia and India. They were from communities and support NGOs who use a variety of development strategies including the formation of savings and credit groups with women as the key force; alternative approaches to forced eviction; community based solutions to settlement improvements. 

Many had grown to a stance whereby they were able to negotiate substantial partnerships with government for land and housing

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South Africa 
South African Homeless Peoples Federation 

Sri Lanka 
The Women's Development Bank  

Namibia
Namibia Housing Action Group (NHAG)
Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia (SDFN)
Habitat II saving scheme

Kenya  
Pamoja Trust
Kenyan Homeless Peoples Federation 

Thailand 
4 Regions Slum  Federation 
Community organisations Development Institute
Urban Poor Grassroots Networks

Philippines
Eviction Watch   
3 Community leaders from COPE UPA 
Philippines Homeless People's Federation

Pakistan 
Urban Resource Centre
Orangi Pilot Project  and community activists
Karachi Young Professionals 

Korea
KOCER
Korean Urban Poor Communities 

Nepal
Lumanti
Nepal Savings Federation

 

Malaysia 
Permas
Wira Damai Longhouse community 
Pandan Indah 3 longhouse community

India 
Mahila Milan Women's Savings group
United Slum Dwellers Federation

APD2
The Indonesian groups 
the situation for groups in Indonesia was in the main, different from the internationals. Decades of dictatorship in Indonesia had developed a somewhat more confrontational approach to government’s neglect of the urban poor.
In many cities strong governments, such s Jakarta’s, had pursued a “war against the poor” through forced evictions, confiscation of means livelihood, arson and arrest of street children and musicians. 
The people’s avenue of response was limited. It was also sector driven: bajak drivers, sex workers, street vendors, street musicians each had their own organisations loosely linked to such groups as the Urban Poor Consortium in Jakarta. Many of the international groups on the other hand had developed through community driven responses and had linked strongly together through community federations and networks.

Local Groups included

street children

street musicians

becak drivers

street vendors

squatters

sex workers

transvestites

factory workers

domestic helpers

disabled

traditional market small traders

motorbike taxi drivers

parking men

riverboat men

urban farmers

fisher-folk

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