Processing of demolition permit revised<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The city administration is evaluating permit
\nprocessing procedures to see why developers are tending to
\ndemolish city property to make way for construction projects.<\/p>\n
Governor Surjadi Soedirdja said on Monday that the evaluation
\nis intended to answer the question as to why an increasing number
\nof the city's assets are being demolished by developers even
\nthough they do not yet hold the necessary documents.<\/p>\n
He said that based on observation, the developers in question
\nhave all met the requirements for procedures and correspondence
\nin the processing of documents.<\/p>\n
He said that he suspected that the concerned personnel at
\nrelated city agencies may be hampering the permit procedures
\nbecause the processing of many documents is not completed on
\ntime.<\/p>\n
\"City administration personnel might have intentionally
\nhampered the issuance of permits to developers,\" Surjadi told
\nreporters at City Hall.<\/p>\n
\"We know that all developers want to build their projects as
\nsoon as possible because their financing is derived from bank
\nloans which bear high interest rates,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Therefore, some of them have been forced to violate the
\nexisting rules by demolishing property even though they do not
\nyet have the proper documents, he added.<\/p>\n
\"We are determined to solve this problem immediately,\" he
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
Recently, three developers have breached regulations by
\ndemolishing city property without prior consent from the
\nGovernor's Office or the City Council. Ironically, the property
\nwas torn down before they prepared new buildings to replace the
\ndemolished ones and to accommodate the students and other
\nresidents, who are affected by their projects.<\/p>\n
The first incident occurred when PT Catur Swasakti Utama (CSU)
\ndestroyed a school building at Menteng Atas in Kuningan, South
\nJakarta, to make way for the establishment of the swanky Taman
\nRasuna Said apartments. Over 300 elementary school students were
\ndisplaced and forced to move to nearby schools.<\/p>\n
While the municipal administration was still mulling what kind
\nof penalties were to be imposed on PT CSU, PT Kredosindo Perkasa
\ndismantled other school buildings to build the Sudirman Tower
\ncondominiums behind Atmajaya University. About 400 elementary,
\njunior and senior high school students were moved to separate
\nschools in Srengseng, Kalibata and Karet.<\/p>\n
The latest violation was that by PT Duta Buana Permai, which
\nis currently constructing the 20-story Pavilion Park apartment
\nbuilding in Karet, Central Jakarta.<\/p>\n
The governor said, however, that the city administration
\ncannot fully blame the developers for these violations.<\/p>\n
\"We will remain calm and not become too emotional in dealing
\nwith such deviations,\" he said.<\/p>\n
The municipal administration will continue encouraging
\ninvestment projects in the city, he added. \"It would only worsen
\nthe city's investment situation, if the projects whose developers
\nviolate regulations are forced to halt temporarily,\" he said.<\/p>\n
He emphasized, however, that the city administration will
\ncontinue penalizing those found to have bypassed the permit
\nprocessing procedures, he said. (yns\/hhr)<\/p>",
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