City to reevaluate analysis of PIK<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Governor Sutiyoso has said that the city
\nadministration would reevaluate the environmental impact analysis
\nof the Pantai Indah Kapuk (PIK) housing complex in North Jakarta
\nfollowing speculative reports of its role in the flood on the
\nSoekarno-Hatta Airport toll road last month.<\/p>\n
\"The reevaluation is necessary to assess the real cause of the
\nflood and to get a more objective picture of PIK's impact on its
\nsurroundings,\" he told reporters at City Hall on Friday.<\/p>\n
\"Had the PIK developer met all the technical and environmental
\nrequirements to develop the area? Did the PIK management make any
\neffort to prevent any environmental damages?\" he added.<\/p>\n
He said the city administration would set up a reevaluation
\nteam on PIK, while Deputy Governor for Development Affairs
\nBudihardjo Sukmadi and City Secretary's Assistant for
\nAdministration and Development Affairs Ongky Sukasah would lead
\nthe team.<\/p>\n
\"I also have ordered the City Planning and the City
\nDevelopment Supervision Agencies to reevaluate the spatial
\nplanning in the area. I want to know whether PIK is appropriate
\nin the area or not,\" the governor said.<\/p>\n
Sutiyoso vowed to make a prudent decision should the
\nevaluation results put PIK in the wrong position.<\/p>\n
\"We can't make emotional and hasty decisions on such an
\nimportant matter,\" he said in response to calls to demolish the
\nhousing complex.<\/p>\n
\"I can simply order it done, but is it the best way?\"<\/p>\n
He said all rehabilitation construction on the toll road would
\nstart on April 1.<\/p>\n
Earlier on Thursday, Ongky met the City Council's Commission D
\nfor Development Affairs discussing the presence of the housing
\ncomplex. Present at the meeting were several heads of city
\nagencies related to the project.<\/p>\n
The cause of the recent flood had become a debated issue among
\nenvironmentalists and city officials. Some blamed the housing
\ncomplex for the flood, while others blamed different factors.<\/p>\n
Head of City Environmental Impact Management Agency
\nAboejoewono said the arguments should be aimed at achieving a
\ncommon perception of how to solve the problem and to prevent it
\nfrom happening again in the future.<\/p>\n
\"It's better to find a way to avoid the flood rather than to
\nfind who to blame,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Blame<\/p>\n
On the other hand, Aboejoewono questioned toll road operator
\nPT Jasa Marga for its failure to submit an Environmental Impact
\nAnalysis on the toll road project to the environmental impact
\nmanagement agency as required by the regulations.<\/p>\n
\"We need to study the analysis to get a better picture of the
\nenvironmental conditions in the area,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Ongky said the city administration had ordered the PIK
\ndeveloper, PT Mandara Permai, to do additional work to help
\novercome the flood.<\/p>\n
\"They will rehabilitate the mangrove forest along the
\ncoastline, five kilometers long and 100 meters wide, to the
\nTangerang borderline. It's expected to retain more water,\" he
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
Head of City Public Works Agency Fadly Khatib said his agency
\nwould continue the construction of a 6-meter wide canal linking
\nthe Kamal and the Tunjungan rivers.<\/p>\n
\"We will build canals on each side of the toll road,\" he said,
\nwhile citing the current construction on the northern side.<\/p>\n
\"We will also widen the Kamal River to 45 meters from six
\nmeters and Tunjungan River to 35 meters from two meters,\" he
\nadded.<\/p>\n
He said PT Jasa Marga had agreed to build bridges crossing
\nboth rivers.<\/p>\n
Most councilors, however, were dissatisfied with the
\nofficials' statement and demanded a more thorough solution to the
\nproblem.<\/p>\n
Commission D deputy chairman, Saud Rachman, suggested that the
\ncity administration should simply build an elevated toll road on
\nthe inundated spots.<\/p>\n
\"It is also important to ask former city administration
\nofficials who are suspected to have been involved in granting
\npermits to the PIK development project,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Saud also agreed to punish the developer by ordering them to
\nconstruct more works to avoid floods.<\/p>\n
\"But we have to audit carefully the contributions they make to
\nrehabilitate the area,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Councilor Bimo Hastoro said it was important for developers to
\nthink about the people in the surrounding areas who might be
\naffected by the development.<\/p>\n
\"The developer also has to construct necessary public works to
\ncompensate for the ecological changes they've made,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Separately, the Indonesian Forum for Environment (WALHI)
\ncalculated that the area could retain more than nine million
\ncubic meters of water previous to the development of PIK. The
\ncapacity shrank to only one-third or some three million cubic
\nmeters after construction. (05)<\/p>",
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