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Worldwide, millions of the most deprived people live in slums with a lack of access to adequate water, hygiene, and sanitation. Inadequate housing and living conditions increase vulnerability to other problems. For example, people living on the river banks in Jakarta, Indonesia regularlyexperience flooding due to adverse environmental conditions. Not only do river bank settlements suffer from floods but also other settlements as well as offices in Jakarta encounter similar effects. These regular floods cost billions of Indonesian Rupiahs(IDR) in damages annually. As part of flood prevention programmes, the Jakarta government evacuated and emptied the river bank settlements and relocated the residents to rented, public high-rise housing provided by the municipality. This article will not address the legal issues of the relocation. Rather, it will examine whether relocation and resettlement due to development programmes can be addressed from a different perspective, one which focuses on human rights as a means to eliminate poverty. This research will also investigate the available accountability mechanisms at both the international and national level. Furthermore, these mechanisms are assessed to determine whether they can be employed to address the effect of development programmes which disproportionally affect people living on river banks. This study uses the classic legal research method, i.e. the normative legal method, to answer the research questions. In addition, the human rights-based approach is employed in assessing the regulation and policies adopted by the Indonesian authorities. The final part of this article provides conclusions and recommendations for policymakers to address the societal problems by employing the human rights approach in tackling poverty and reducing the negative impacts of developments.

Unsafe River Bank Houses? A Legal Reflection on Issues of Freedom from Poverty, Development Programmes and Accountability Mechanisms in Indonesia