Tangerang – Some 500 residents blocked Jl. Ciater Raya in Bumi Serpong Damai on Monday morning to protest being forced off their land.

Their eviction from some 9,880 square meters of land in Rawa Mekar subdistrict, Serpong district, Tangerang, was scheduled for later that day.

Tempo Interaktif reported the residents formed a human chain across the road at 8 a.m. and burned tires on the intersection toward Ciputat-Pamulang.

Protest coordinator Tomi Patria said the residents were prepared to defend their property, which was bought by many of them in the 1950s. He said the land ownership certificates produced by the evictors were fake.