Ancol park's overdue parking fees payment reaches Rp 11b

Ancol park's overdue parking fees payment reaches Rp 11b

JAKARTA (JP): Overdue parking fees payable by PT Pengelola Taman Impian Jaya Ancol, which manages the Ancol Dreamland park in North Jakarta, have reached about Rp 11 billion (US$5 million), a city councillor said yesterday.

H. Helmy AR. Syihab, chairman of the city council's Commission C, which is in charge of financial affairs, said that the overdue fees were payable in respect of the period between 1990 and 1994.

The high level of overdue fees was uncovered in a meeting between the councillors and two directors of the company, Sukrisman and Sapardjo, in Ancol on Monday.

Sahala P. Sinaga of the Indonesian Democratic Party faction said that the total parking fees overdue had been calculated on the basis that an average of three million cars enter the Ancol Dreamland complex every year.

The entrance ticket fee, which the councillors consider a parking fee, is set by the management of Ancol Dreamland at Rp 3,000 per car. The part which should have been paid by the Ancol Dreamland management to the city administration amounted to Rp 2.25 billion for each year, Sahala said.

"Since the enactment of the governor's decree on parking fees in 1990, Ancol Dreamland's management has never paid its parking fees to the city administration," said Sahala.

Yunda, an Ancol Dreamland spokeswoman, said that Ancol never collected parking fees from the vehicles entering the recreation complex.

"The entrance fee for every vehicle entering the location is not a parking fee, but is part of the entrance ticket, which includes entertainment tax of 25 percent, which is paid directly to the City Revenue Office," she said.

Fauzy Alvi Yasin, the city secretary's assistant for administration, commented: "If Ancol Dreamland says the fee is not for parking, the management has to clarify that."

It was true, he said, that the government had taken 25 percent in entertainment tax, but parking is another thing. There was a regional regulation regarding parking, he said.

"It would be illogical for the Ancol Dreamland administrator to classify the vehicles entering the location as visitors just like human beings," Sahala added. (31)