WEST JAKARTA, Indonesia — Hundreds of students from Arastamar Evangelical Theological Seminary (AETS) were recently evicted from two sites where they had taken refuge after Muslim protestors drove them from their campus last year.
With about 700 students earlier evicted from Bumi Perkemahan Cibubur campground, officers appointed by the West Jakarta District Court began evacuating more than 300 other students Oct. 26 from a former West Jakarta municipal building.
In response, the more than 1,000 evicted AETS students demonstrated in West Jakarta on Oct. 27, clogging traffic and leading to altercations with police that led to the arrest of at least five students. Six officers were injured. The eviction from the former West Jakarta mayoral office came after the city settled accounts with the Sawerigading Foundation, which officially gained ownership of the site from the city after a long court dispute.
The Jakarta provincial government has offered to house students at city-owned office building in North Jakarta that AETS officials said was unfit for habitation.
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