Games village plan faces difficulties<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The Jakarta administration said yesterday that
\nit refused to give a building permit to construct an athletes
\nvillage for the 19th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games here next year
\nbecause it never saw the proposal.<\/p>\n
Jakarta deputy governor for economic and development Tubagus
\nM. Rais said yesterday that the SEA Games organizing committee
\nhad yet to submit the project proposal containing the village's
\nblueprint.<\/p>\n
\"We have to learn whether the village's master plan meets
\nvarious regulations before we issue the permit,\" Rais said. \"We
\nnever mean to impose complicated procedures on the committee. We
\nwill issue the permit as long as it complies with all the
\nrequirements .\"<\/p>\n
Rais was responding to the committee's housing official,
\nBambang Sugama, who complained that the absence of a building
\npermit had delayed the construction project of the village on a
\nfour-hectare lot in Senayan formerly used as a shooting range.<\/p>\n
Bambang said that the project, which is expected to take 10
\nmonths to complete, would cost the Games' underwriting consortium
\nbetween US$60 million and $70 million.<\/p>\n
Rais said that the ratio of construction to open space on a
\ngiven plot varies in different areas. According to the city
\nplanning office, the site is allocated for public facilities.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, State Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Hayono
\nIsman said that if the city administration could not issue the
\npermit for the project immediately, he would call apartment
\ndevelopers to lease their buildings to accommodate the athletes.<\/p>\n
Hayono listed Aburizal Bakrie, whose company is completing the
\nconstruction of the Taman Rasuna apartments in Kuningan, South
\nJakarta, among potential construction tycoons the Games committee
\nmight ask for rooms.<\/p>\n
The minister suggested the last alternative if the developers
\nrefused to help the committee by accommodating all participating
\nathletes and officials in hotels around the Senayan sports
\ncomplex in Central Jakarta.<\/p>\n
\"But we must remember that the hotels will also accommodate
\nsupporters from participating countries,\" he said.<\/p>\n
The city's hotels, from motels to five star hotels, have a
\ncapacity of 15,000 people.<\/p>\n
Some 7,000 athletes and officials from Southeast Asia's 10
\ncountries are expected to take part in the Games, scheduled to
\nrun for 10 days in October next year. (yan\/yns)<\/p>",
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