Word by word suffocated my lungs and so they hung there, limped and numbed. The scattered houses down bellow are a jungle of undeniable truths of how living squatters in Indonesia’s biggest city, Jakarta is conditioned. I am sure if you open the car window you would smell the bad odor rousing from down there. Haphazard developments of housing on unattended or under disputes of ownership lands are what had happened to form these squatters.

Yusuf Biliarta Mangunwijaya, known as Romo Mangun, born in Ambarawa, 6th of May 1929, is one of Indonesian maestro architect, an author, also a religious Catholic leader. He got his educational background from Seminari Menengah Kotabaru, Yogyakarta (1951), Seminari Menengah Santo Petrus Kanisius, Mertoyudan, Magelang (1952), Filsafat Teologi Sancti Pauli, Kotabaru, Yogyakarta (1953-1959), Teknik Arsitektur, ITB,