Mayor makes good on warning, revokes permit<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): East Jakarta Mayor Sudarsono said he would stop
\nissuing new building permits and certificates for land
\nappropriation to PT Quartalintas Sembada, the developer of the
\nConcord 2000 luxury housing complex.<\/p>\n
The measure was taken because the company has failed to
\nfulfill its promise to build social and public facilities,
\nincluding parks, schools, sports facilities and an office
\nbuilding for the mayor in the complex, Sudarsono told The Jakarta
\nPost yesterday.<\/p>\n
He said he has previously reminded the company of its
\nresponsibility to build the public facilities. \"True, the
\ndeveloper has provided a 20,000 meter square plot of land for the
\nfacilities, but it has yet to build anything on the land.\"<\/p>\n
Instead of building such facilities, the developer built its
\nmarketing office in the complex. The mayor said the developer
\nwould be given three months' to demolish the marketing office and
\nbuild sports facilities instead.<\/p>\n
The mayor refused to go into details as to what action would
\nbe taken against the developer if it continued to neglect its
\nobligations.<\/p>\n
This is the second time that city authorities have taken
\naction against an errant housing developer for neglecting
\nobligations to build social and public facilities.<\/p>\n
Saud Rachman, a city councilor from Commission D, in charge of
\ndevelopment affairs, urged the mayor to immediately stop the
\nactivities of the developer, until it begins to build the
\nfacilities, as required by the mayoralty.<\/p>\n
\"It seems to me that the company only thinks of the profit it
\nwill gain by building the exclusive housing complex,\" Saud said,
\nafter he and several other city councilors from the same
\ncommission inspected the complex.<\/p>\n
He said the East Jakarta mayor should follow in the footsteps
\nof North Jakarta Mayor Suprawito, who revoked building permits of
\nPT Summarecon, a major housing developer, for its failure to
\ncomply with the bylaw on building social and public facilities.<\/p>\n
Suprawito said on Thursday that his office was even
\nconsidering revoking land appropriation permits now held by PT
\nSummarecon and possibly even filing a law suit against the
\ncompany for continuing to neglect its obligations.<\/p>\n
\"I really mean it, because Governor Suryadi Soedirdja has also
\ncalled on city officials to be firm against errant developers,\"
\nhe emphasized.<\/p>\n
The mayor disclosed that there are many \"delinquent\" housing
\ndevelopers based in his mayoralty.<\/p>\n
\"PT Summarecon is one of them,\" Suprawito said as quoted by
\nAntara.<\/p>\n
He said that actually he has repeatedly called on developers
\nto comply with the regulation requiring them to build public
\nfacilities in each of the housing complexes they are building.\"It
\nappears that my warnings always fall on deaf ears, on the part of
\nthe companies.\"<\/p>\n
PT Summarecon Agung is a publicly listed company on the
\nJakarta Stock Exchange. It holds nine land appropriation permits
\nfor North Jakarta, enabling it to appropriate 307.6 hectares of
\nland.<\/p>\n
Mayor Suprawito said that as of next week all building permits
\nissued to all developers, which have yet to comply with the
\nregulation, would be withdrawn.<\/p>\n
\"Let's wait and see,\" he said, adding that he would not
\nhesitate to take even harsher action against errant developers.<\/p>\n
He pointed out that his office would take three steps to cope
\nwith the problem.<\/p>\n
\"We will revoke their land appropriation permits, stop giving
\nadministrative services to them and bring them to court,\" he
\nstressed.<\/p>\n
Suprawito said Governor Suryadi has fully supported his
\ndecision. (bas\/31)<\/p>",
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