Municipality not to revoke PT CSU permit<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Governor Surjadi Soedirdja said that the city
\nadministration will not revoke the land use permit of the company
\ndeveloping the Taman Rasuna apartments. The developers have
\nviolated certain regulations by illegally demolishing state-owned
\nproperty.<\/p>\n
\"Revoking the permit will only cause more trouble, but we must
\nstill penalize them for having violated the regulation,\" Surjadi
\ntold reporters at the City hall yesterday.<\/p>\n
He explained that his office was still deciding how the
\ndeveloper is to be punished. \"Right now the most important thing
\nis to provide the children of a nearby primary school with a
\nbetter studying environment. We hope to do this soon by moving
\nthem to another place,\" Surjadi said.<\/p>\n
PT Catur Swasakti Utama (CSU) illegally appropriated state-
\nowned properties, including several elementary school buildings
\nand an unoccupied 6,000-square-meter plot.<\/p>\n
PT CSU is controlled by Bakrie Investindo, a holding
\ncorporation of the Bakrie business group, whose major shareholder
\nis Aburizal Bakrie, the chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of
\nCommerce and Industry (Kadin).<\/p>\n
Kurniasih, the headmaster of one of the schools, said earlier
\nthat 334 of her pupils had abandoned the school building and
\nmoved to two other nearby schools. The project had produced thick
\ndust and noise, posing serious health problems to the students.<\/p>\n
PT CSU said that they only demolished the two elementary
\nschool buildings within the 3.7-hectare area because the physical
\nconditions of the buildings were so bad that they could have
\ntumbled down anytime, particularly with the workers starting to
\nuse heavy equipment.<\/p>\n
The developer is building one 4,000-apartment unit in the
\nstrategic area, popularly known as the Golden Triangle.<\/p>\n
The company claims that it was preferable to build temporary
\nclassrooms and to demolish the aging school buildings.<\/p>\n
Executives at the developing company have admitted that they
\nmade a mistake in tearing down the old school buildings without
\nfirst asking for an official permit from the city administration.<\/p>\n
Hope<\/p>\n
Deputy governor for Economy and Development affairs Tb. M.
\nRais hopes that the mayoralty officials do their job in
\ncontrolling and keeping the developers to their obligation.<\/p>\n
\"The supervision team in each mayoralty should do their job as
\nthey already have the given authority to do so and the municipal
\nadministration can not do the job alone,\" Rais told reporters
\nyesterday.<\/p>\n
He pointed out the fact that many developers have failed to
\nmeet their obligations, such as by demolishing municipal
\nproperties without a permit and for failing to build social and
\npublic facilities.<\/p>\n
\"Supervision officials should be stricter when doing their
\njobs,\" Rais said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile the city administration has ordered PT CSU to move
\nits cement mixing plant 500 meters away from a nearby school
\nbuilding to protect students from the dust and noise coming from
\nthe plant. (yns)<\/p>",
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