Authorities to set up team to monitor parking operators<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): In an effort to enforce the new city ordinance
\non parking fees, the city administration will set up a second
\nspecial team to monitor defiant private parking operators and
\nclose operations not in compliance an official said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
"The special team is to ensure that city officials will be
\nsuccessful in sealing off the parking booths and machines at
\ndefiant private parking lots," Assistant to City Secretary on
\nAdministration affairs Ma'mun Amin told city councillors in a
\nmeeting.<\/p>\n
"We're still monitoring those private parking lots that
\ncontinue to charge higher fees than the ones set by the
\ngubernatorial decree," he said.<\/p>\n
The operators have allegedly violated Gubernatorial Decree No.
\n1698\/1999, that sets the first hour parking fee at Rp 1,000 (13
\nU.S. cents) at busy areas and Rp 500 at less busy areas.<\/p>\n
Ma'mun said the special team members would be taken from the
\nCity Parking Agency, City Public Order Office and City Economics
\nOffice.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, city councillors, during the meeting with city
\nofficials, voiced their support of all measures taken by the city
\nadministration to enforce parking regulations.<\/p>\n
They even asked the administration to be more serious in
\nhandling the private parking issue. "Why did the City Parking
\nAgency keep quiet although there is City Bylaw No.5\/1999 on
\nParking and the gubernatorial decree on parking fees?<\/p>\n
"Both regulations provide sufficient legal authority to the
\ncity administration," said councillor Saud Rahman of the United
\nDevelopment Party (PPP).<\/p>\n
"Such attitudes have raised suspicions among residents that
\nagency officials were playing around with the private parking
\noperators.<\/p>\n
"I hope the allegations aren't true, so do something," he
\nadded.<\/p>\n
Saud said councillors would back the city administration in
\nfacing any lawsuits filed by businessmen grouped in the
\nCommunication Forum for Private Parking Operators (FKKPPS).<\/p>\n
Members of the communication forum said on Tuesday that they
\nwould file a lawsuit with the Jakarta State Administrative Court
\n(PTUN) if the administration continued with its plan to seal
\nprivate parking lots that did not comply with the new rate
\nstructure.<\/p>\n
Councillor Tjuk Sudono of the National Mandate Party (PAN)
\nalso expressed his support for the administration's plan, saying
\nthat the existing regulations were sufficient to insist on
\ncompliance by the private parking operators.<\/p>\n
"All you have to do is enforce the regulations and we will
\nback you," he told the city officials, while suggesting a gradual
\nimplementation of both regulations.<\/p>\n
Besides having to charge lower fees, the private parking
\noperators are also required to register their businesses and
\ncollect their licenses at the City Parking Agency before June 1
\nor face sanctions. There is no fee for the license.<\/p>\n
Ma'mun said there were 25 private parking operators who had
\npicked up the registration forms, but only nine have submitted
\nthe completed forms.<\/p>\n
"I hope other operators will follow suit soon," he said. (nvn)<\/p>", "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/authorities-to-set-up-team-to-monitor-parking-operators-1447893297", "image": "" }, "sponsor": "Okusi Associates", "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com" }