Squatters given collection deadline<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The state-owned housing company Perum Perumnas
\nhas given squatters in Kapuk, West Jakarta, three days to collect
\ntheir compensation.<\/p>\n
"They must take their compensation in three days. We will not
\npay compensation after the deadline," said Didin Sutiadi, head of
\nthe Perum Perumnas branch of Cengkareng yesterday.<\/p>\n
A gubernatorial decree is allowing Perum Perumnas to
\nappropriate 334 hectares of land in Kapuk and Cengkareng Timur to
\nconstruct a low-cost housing complex.<\/p>\n
Perum Perumnas is offering residents compensation between Rp
\n20,000 and Rp 60,000 per square meter of building. It does not
\nprovide actual land compensation since, they say, the land
\nbelongs to the firm.<\/p>\n
While 94 of the 995 families in Kapuk had rejected the paltry
\ncompensation offered, 30 of them accepted it yesterday after the
\nWest Jakarta authorities demolished their houses.<\/p>\n
"It is better than nothing," a resident told The Jakarta Post.<\/p>\n
West Jakarta mayoralty officials, police and military officers
\ndemolished the squatter houses in Kapuk two weeks ago. Around
\nthree hundred residents, including women and children, resisted
\nthe demolition by erecting makeshift barricades and throwing
\nstones at the officers.<\/p>\n
Despite their resistance, the officers managed to pull down 30
\nhouses. More than 60 houses still stand on the site.<\/p>\n
Didin disclosed that the 30 families accepted individual
\ncompensations ranging between Rp 975,000 and Rp 9 million. He
\ndeclined to say how much was paid out to the 30 families, saying
\nonly that Perum Perumnas has allocated Rp 162 million in
\ncompensation funds for the 94 reluctant families.<\/p>\n
Perum Perumnas had allocated Rp 2.44 billion for compensation
\nto be paid to the owners of 1,200 houses occupied by 995 families
\nin Kapuk.<\/p>\n
Most of them have accepted compensation and already moved from
\nthe land. (29)<\/p>",
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