TRACES OF HOMES
PHOTOGRAPHY , 2008-2010
One of programs released by Jakarta’s government in 2003 to resolve flood in the city is developing canals in eastern part of Jakarta. The canal’s project was planned to be finished in 2010. To make this project, city’s government should free the lands that consist of eleven big districts in East Jakarta and two big areas in North Jakarta. This project is known by citizens as BKT (Banjir Kanal Timur / East Canal).
Systematical eviction run for the sake of urban plan always creates some pattern of changes in the city that never seen before. I could discover various new forms created from spaces where its habitants had gone away. This urban phenomenon provokes many questions about the people that had lived and settled there, as well as how memory of every each room inside their houses that will be disappeared forever.