235 houses to be demolished

JAKARTA (JP): As many as 235 houses along the Kebon Jeruk toll road in West Jakarta will be demolished soon to make way for a road construction project, an official says.

Project manager Hidayat Alamsyah said on Tuesday that the local administration had provided compensation to all the affected residents last week.

"The construction work will start as soon as the houses have been removed," he told reporters. He added that no residents had raised objections regarding the compensation paid.

The land has been appropriated to make way for a widening of Jl. Arjuna. According to Hidayat, the administration spent Rp 970 million (US$433,000) on the land appropriation.

The compensation paid to individual land-holders ranged between Rp 60,000 and Rp 425,000, Hidayat said. (pan)