City chalks up 3.87% growth in 2002

City chalks up 3.87% growth in 2002

JAKARTA: The capital city enjoyed a 3.87 percent economic
growth rate, slightly higher than the national figure of 3.66
percent last year.

This year, however, the figure is expected to decline,
especially since the fire at Tanah Abang textile market, Central
Jakarta, on Feb. 19

The information was revealed by the Jakarta branch of the
Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) on Wednesday, as quoted by
city-owned news portal beritajakarta.com.

BPS Jakarta said the economic growth was mainly attributable
to the transportation and communications, trading, hotel and
restaurant, electricity, gas and water supply sectors.

The Bali bombing last October did not have a significant
impact on growth as it was still in the expected range of 3.5
percent to 4.0 percent.

Meanwhile, BPS Jakarta recorded that some 1.15 million foreign
tourists visited Jakarta last year, an increase of 3.98 percent
on last year's 1.11 million. -- JP

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Focus-Tangerang-Jamsostek
Only 890 firms join Jamsostek
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Only 890 firms join Jamsostek

TANGERANG: Only about 28 percent of a total of 3,214 companies in
Tangerang have registered their workers with Jamsostek (state
workers insurance).

Jamsostek Tangerang branch chief Achmad Ansyori said that
there were 3,214 industrial firms in Tangerang, but as of this
month only 890 firms had joined the Jamsostek program amounting
to a total of 42,969 workers.

But he said that of the 890 firms, some 320 had not paid their
monthly premiums during the last few months. Some of them had not
made any payments for the past for five months.

"The management of those companies lack awareness of their
obligation. Workers are entitled to such insurance and their
companies should not disrupt it by not paying their premium
contributions," he said.

According to Law No. 14/1992 on Jamsostek and
Government Regulation No. 14/1993 that outlines the program
implementation, a company that employs more than 10 workers and
pays Rp 1 million or more in total monthly salaries for its
workers is obliged to join the Jamsostek program.

Violators face a six-month prison sentence or Rp 50 million in
fines and those who are late in paying the monthly premium will
be fined as much as 2 percent of the total monthly
contribution.--JP

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Focus-Tangerang-mayor
Probe against Tangerang mayor sought
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Probe against Tangerang mayor sought

TANGERANG: Some 150 residents of Bencongan subdistrict, in Curug
district of Tangerang regency staged a rally at the Tangerang
Prosecutors Office on Wednesday, demanding that the investigation
into Mayor Mochamad Thamrin be started soon.

The residents, grouped in the Combined Peoples Action for
Constitution, Corruption Collusion and Nepotism (Garuk) believed
that the mayor had misappropriated land submitted by developer
Gading Serpong Housing for public facilities to the regency
administration when he was still the regency administration
secretary.

Garuk also urged the prosecutors office to investigate an
alleged mark up of the land prices from Rp 50,000 to Rp 100,000
per square meter.

The land submitted by Gading Serpong Housing was allocated for
a public cemetery, but until now there is no such facility in the
complex," Haryadi Nugraha who led the residents said.
According to Nugraha, the housing developer Mulyadi claimed
that he had submitted some money to the regency administration as
compensation for the developer's obligation to provide land for
public facilities.

Prosecutors office chief Himawan Kaskawa met with the
protesting residents and asked them to prepare a written
statement of their complaints.--JP