ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces a group of residents who are nicknamed the orang mengajar keamanan in the neighbourhood, or, shorter, the orang ajar. At about five o'clock in the morning, Yusuf, the man who alarmed the author and many other residents of Bantaran Kali for the flood, was helping people to evacuate to the government shelter. According to orang ajar Memen, an enthusiastic organizer of lectures' in Bantaran Kali: Our knowledge must be continually repeated to all of our neighbours. All orang ajar indicated in conversations with me that they believe that their cooperation with authorities may, in the longer run, help them to increase economic capital. In order to develop an ajar risk style, inhabitants have to be able and willing to invest much time, energy and money into the practices and means associated with this style there by increasing their vulnerability to flood risk.
