City prepares draft bylaw on asset management<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Head of the City Supplies Office, Dadang
\nRuskandar, said on Tuesday that the city administration was ready
\nto submit a draft bylaw on city asset management as requested by
\nthe City Council.<\/p>\n
\"The city administration has prepared the draft bylaw and
\nGovernor Sutiyoso will review it in March before submitting it to
\nthe City Council in April,\" he told reporters at City Hall.<\/p>\n
\"We welcome the City Council's initiative to prepare a draft
\nbylaw of its own. We (city administration and city council) can
\ndeliberate both drafts to get a better bylaw,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Dadang said the city currently has total assets of more than
\nRp 66.55 trillion (US$ 887 million).<\/p>\n
\"The amount fluctuates as we write off old assets or accept
\nnew ones,\" he said.<\/p>\n
\"There are 18 types of assets, including animals, books,
\nbridges, buildings, heavy equipment, medical equipment, and plots
\nof land,\" he added.<\/p>\n
The official said the city administration's draft bylaw had 14
\nchapters and 48 articles to cover aspects of authority and
\nresponsibility, planning and procurement, maintenance, management
\nby third parties, control, legal status and legal actions, etc.<\/p>\n
\"Until now, the supply office has registered all city assets
\nwithout any basis in law for keeping them. This draft bylaw will
\nprovide a legal basis for such actions,\" he said.<\/p>\n
The City Supplies Office now will start to impose legal
\nactions against asset embezzlement based on the list provided by
\nDadang's predecessors. \"We'll start with the city assets
\nregistered in the 1990s.\"<\/p>\n
Dadang said the draft bylaw would enable the city
\nadministration to cooperate with other agencies to manage the
\nassets.<\/p>\n
Councilor Amarullah Asbah of the Golkar Party announced on
\nMonday that the city council would soon submit a draft on city
\nasset management.<\/p>\n
Good news<\/p>\n
Of Dadang's announcement, Amarullah said it was good news to
\nhear the city administration had already prepared its draft
\nbylaw.<\/p>\n
\"It shows that the city administration and the city council
\nhave the same perception on city asset management. It's fine if
\nthey (city administration) are better prepared than city
\ncouncilors,\" he told The Jakarta Post by phone.<\/p>\n
\"The most important thing is that the city administration will
\nhave the bylaw for the current fiscal year,\" he added.<\/p>\n
Dadang said his office had asked the City Mapping Agency to
\ndraw a map of the city assets, in a move to better manage the
\nassets.<\/p>\n
\"The agency is currently drawing a map for all subdistricts in
\nSouth Jakarta. We'll have maps for all mayoralties by next year,\"
\nhe said.<\/p>\n
He said the city currently has 11,120 plots of land worth more
\nthan Rp 35.9 trillion.<\/p>\n
\"We have certified only some 2,500 plots. City Secretary Fauzi
\nBowo has instructed the City Supplies Office to certify all the
\nplots,\" he said, while citing that he would store all documents
\nin a bank's safe deposit box to guarantee their safety.<\/p>\n
Dadang said the draft bylaw, if enacted, would enable his
\noffice to pursue the city's property developers to fulfill their
\nobligation to establish public and social facilities in their
\nrespective areas, such as bridges, roads, sports fields and
\nschools.<\/p>\n
\"The developers have yet to transfer 2,200 items of such
\nfacilities to the city administration as per their obligations,\"
\nhe said. (05)<\/p>",
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