The idea to write an alternative version of the civil society have emerged during the meeting in Yogyakarta on June 2015, facilitated by Rujak Center for Urban Studies (RCUS). The meeting was attended by activists of civil society organizations, academics and activists of urban and environmental issues from various regions in Indonesia.
At the meeting in Jogjakarta was discussed the report of the government’s version for UN Habitat III. The meeting participants saw that the report of the government’s version had not described or even did not describe the actual conditions of urban issues in Indonesia. The urban partial pockface in Indonesia was like hidden in the report of the government’s version.
The partial pockface, among others, was related to the crisis of urban poor settlement (and also the eviction of urban poor), ecological crisis (including the vulnerability of cities to the threat of climate change) and also the citizen initiative in responding to various urban crisis had not appeared or did
not appear in the report of the government.