Firms deny role in alleged intimidation<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Two companies denied allegations yesterday that
\nthey had resorted to intimidation to force Pesanggrahan residents
\nto sell their land to make way for a toll road in Bintaro, South
\nJakarta.<\/p>\n
Executives of PT Bumi Serpong Damai (BSD) and PT Jaya Real
\nProperty (JRP), who are to build the toll road under a contract
\nwith the city administration, told the city council's Commission
\nA and Commission D that their companies were not involved in the
\nland appropriation process for the project. The appropriation of
\nland was being handled by PT Jasa Marga, the state owned company
\nassigned to manage all toll roads, they said.<\/p>\n
\"On the basis of an agreement with the government the land
\nappropriation process is being handled by PT Jasa Marga, while PT
\nBintaro Serpong Damai is only responsible for the construction of
\nthe toll road,\" Iknes Kemalawarta, director of PT BSD, told the
\nhearing.<\/p>\n
Therefore, he said, the accusation that his company had
\nintimidated residents was groundless.<\/p>\n
Last January about 45 people, who claimed to represent 180
\nfamilies in the Pesanggrahan subdistrict, filed a complaint with
\nthe city administration over the compensation they had been
\noffered for the appropriation of their land.<\/p>\n
The residents complained that the South Jakarta mayor had
\ndetermined the compensation, which ranged from 165,000 to Rp
\n250,000 per square meter, without consulting them.<\/p>\n
The residents demanded that the city administration pay
\ncompensation at the higher rate of Rp 700,000 to Rp 800,000 per
\nsquare meter, noting that displaced residents in North Jakarta
\nhad received between Rp 640,000 and Rp 384,000 per square meter
\nin the case of another toll road project.<\/p>\n
The city administration plans to build a 13.1 km toll road on
\nthe land. The construction of the road is to be carried out by
\nthe two companies in cooperation with PT Jasa Marga.<\/p>\n
Councilor M.U. Fatommy Asaari urged the executives to get
\ninvolved in the land appropriation process as a means of
\ndispelling the impression, widespread among the residents, that
\nthe companies were using the government to evict them.<\/p>\n
Fatommy also asked the companies to follow proper procedures
\nin appropriating city assets in the area.<\/p>\n
Diaz Moreno, director of PT JRP, assured members of the two
\ncommissions that the company would help resolve the matter.<\/p>\n
In a related development, Head of the City Sanitary Office M.
\nSubasir told reporters at City Hall yesterday that a 11,000
\nsquare meter plot of land owned by the office would be
\nappropriated for the toll road.<\/p>\n
\"We will not receive money as compensation because I have
\nproposed that (instead) the companies give us plots of land in
\nfive mayoralties which will be used as garbage dumps,\" Subasir
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
He added that the office needed new temporary garbage dumps in
\nthe five mayoralties. \"The garbage at the (new) dumps will later
\nbe transported to permanent sites in Pulo Gebang, East Jakarta,\"
\nhe said. (yns)<\/p>",
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