Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – Conflicts continued between officers of the Army's Strategic Reserves Command (Kostrad) and residents of the Kostrad housing complex in Kebayoran Lama, South Jakarta, with residents refusing to leave the houses they have lived in for years.

The officers maintained that 33 families should be evicted from the housing complex because the houses had to be handed over to families of other active officers.

Some families did not even have the right to live there because they had no connection with Kostrad, the officers said. Out of 658 houses in the complex, only 183 of them are occupied by officers' families.

On Tuesday, some officers were accused of locking up two children and three housemaids in a house on Jl. Dharma Putra I. The house used to be occupied by the family of Siregar, a retired Kostrad officer, but is now occupied by Siregar's relative.

Kostrad spokesman Lt. Col. Inf. Husni denied they had intended to locked up Lisa's children and housemaids, saying Lisa and her family only made up the scenario to delay the eviction.

"We did not lock them up, we have told them (the family) before that we would lock the house gate at 5 p.m., and they said it was OK because they could get out of the house using the back door," he told reporters at the scene.

"So why did they then accuse us? We have conducted the eviction based on the procedures. We have give them time to prepare and we have listened to their excuses. I think they made up the reasons because they did not want to move out."

Husni called on the families who should have moved out of their houses to comply with the procedures, because families of many other active officers were waiting to move into the houses.

Husni said the evicted families had to leave the houses by July 31 at the latest. Last week, some residents also protested by burning tires at the housing complex entrance.