5,400 city assets undocumented
5,400 city assets undocumented
Bambang Nurbianto, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
The city administration is only able to show title documents for
some 2,600 of its total number of 8,000 properties worth Rp 74
trillion (US$8.7 billion), causing fears that it might lose more
assets if it fails to obtain the necessary documents, an official
said.
City Assets Bureau director Rama Budhi said on Wednesday that
the city assets under the control of his bureau included office
and school buildings, public parks, hospitals and other land and
buildings managed or rented by the private sector or foundations.
According to Rama, the assets also included lands and
buildings taken over at the end of the colonial era and land
handed over by developers, who are required to donate about 20
percent of the land area of developments to the city
administration for the building of public facilities.
"We will document the assets. Our target is that every year
between 200 to 300 of the assets will get title documents," Rama
told the press on the sidelines of a City Council plenary meeting
to review the 2002 city budget.
Previously, the secretary to the council's Commission B for
economic affairs, Dani Anwar, said that properties managed or
rented by the private sector could be lost as the administration
had no title documents for many of them.
Assets currently being rented by the private sector included
the Batu Tulis Putih and Pradidipta shop buildings, and the
Tastra Jaya and Aloca complexes.
Besides the properties, there were also companies that were
jointly managed with private firms. These firms included PT.
Langgeng Ayom Lestari, Sapta Nawawi, Bhakti foundation, PT Duta
Pertiwi, PT Bakri Investindo, PT Jaya Real Property, PT Rointa
Ekajaya, PT Dharma Alumas Sakti, and PT Kempas Indah Indonesia.
Rama admitted there were also a number of assets which were in
disputed as between private companies and the city
administration, but the number was not significant.
"We have assets that are in dispute with third parties, but
the number is not significant compared to the total assets owned
by the city," he added.
During the plenary session, a number of factions on the City
Council asked the city administration to tackle the problem of
assets seriously.
"The city administration should pay serious attention to the
problem of assets. The lose of these properties would show us
just how poor city management is," said Indonesian Democratic
Party of Straggle (PDI Perjuangan) faction spokesman, Sayogo
Hendrosubroto.
Similar comments were made by the spokesman for the United
Development Party faction, Ali Imran Husein, who demanded that
the city administration secure the future of such assets by
drafting a bylaw on city assets.
The National Mandate Party (PAN) faction spokesman Suyatno
also mentioned that some property developers had not yet handed
over land to the city administration for the building of public
facilities.
He said that the city administration should ask the developers
to comply with the regulations.