Gas station project under fire<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The City Planning Agency and the City
\nSupervision and Construction Agency are in hot water after
\ngranting a permit to a businessman to construct a gas station on
\nJl. Gunung Sahari, Central Jakarta, which will partly occupies
\ngovernment land.<\/p>\n
Head of Central Jakarta's Park Agency, Agung Sukaton, said on
\nTuesday that the two agencies had overlooked the existence of a
\nbus shelter and seven big trees, which are on a sidewalk in front
\nof the planned station.<\/p>\n
\"The City Planning Agency, which recommended the issuance of
\nthe permit, and the city supervision and construction agency,
\nwhich issued the permit, did not check the location before
\ngranting the approval for the construction of the gas station,\"
\nAgung said.<\/p>\n
The construction of the station, which is owned by businessman
\nFajri Setiawan, will cause the destruction of at least three of
\nthe seven trees, each with a diameter of around 60 centimeters.<\/p>\n
A 1988 decree of the city administration rules that any
\nillegal cutting of government trees is punishable by a Rp 50,000
\n(US$6.25) fine.<\/p>\n
Officials from neither agency were available to state grounds
\nfor issuing the permit.<\/p>\n
An official from the city supervision and construction agency,
\nhowever, blamed the owner for building the station in violation
\nof the building certificate issued by the government.<\/p>\n
\"The owner has constructed its underground gasoline tanks
\nprecisely under the pumping machines, instead of placing them at
\nthe rear part of the land,\" Rustam Effendi, head of the Kemayoran
\nsubdistrict, said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\"The underground tanks can explode if the road lane above is
\noverburdened with weight.\"<\/p>\n
Rustam said he had sealed off the station twice, but the owner
\ncontinued with the construction.<\/p>\n
\"I decided to hand over the problem to the Central Jakarta
\nmayor last month,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Central Jakarta mayor, Andi S. Abdullah, separately said that
\nbefore making a decision he would wait for a report from a team
\nwhich was evaluating the construction of the station.<\/p>\n
\"We will probably relocate the gas station as its construction
\nis still ongoing,\" he told The Jakarta Post.<\/p>\n
An official of the construction company, who asked for
\nanonymity, told the Post that he would continue with the
\nconstruction and cut down the trees as planned. (04)<\/p>",
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