City criticized for inaction on work proposals
City criticized for inaction on work proposals
JAKARTA (JP): The municipality should have asked for proposals
of projects considered important to the city before completing
the 1985 to 2010 revised spatial plan, a councilor said Saturday.
Councilor Lukman F. Mokoginta said the municipality should not
wait for the private sector to hand in their proposals.
"If the revised spatial plan does not include the (proposed)
projects, it would be impossible to construct the projects in the
near future," Lukman, a member of the city council's commission D
on development affairs, said.
He was responding to Friday's presentation on the 1985 to 2010
revised urban spatial plan, which did not include two already-
proposed private mega projects: the three-tier transit system and
the Manggarai integrated transport project.
The head of The City's Spatial Plan Agency, Ahmaddin Ahmad,
said the revised plan did not include the projects because
neither proposal had been submitted to the city.
Lukman, who chairs the council's Indonesian Democratic Party
faction, blamed the projects' consortia for poor coordination
with the city on the projects.
"They (the consortia) know that a spatial plan is a basic
requirement for any development in the city, so they should have
handed in the proposals to the municipality long before the
revision was to be completed," he said.
However he said it was the administration which should
approach the consortia for the proposals if they were important
for the city.
A member of the Manggarai transport consortium has said the
project's design was still being revised to reduce costs.
Lukman said it was still possible to revise the new spatial
plan to include both projects, if it were considered necessary,
but it would take a long time.
But he said, there was a need for a thorough study to take
into account the projects' technical details, land use, economic
contributions to the municipality, and impact on the surrounding
environment and people before they could be included in the
spatial plan.
The spatial plan is revised every five years to accommodate
new development progress.
The proposed three-tier transit system includes a 22-kilometer
light rail system and 23.65 kilometers of toll road.
Construction is due to start in Bintaro, South Jakarta in
December and is scheduled for completion by 2001.
It is to be constructed by a joint venture company,
PT Citramoda Margakencana Persada, which consists of PT Citra
Lamtoro Gung Persada -- owned by President Soeharto's eldest
daughter Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana -- state-owned railway company
Perumka and state-owned highway corporation PT Jasa Marga.
In 1995 the chairwoman of the US$285 million Manggarai
Integrated Transport consortium, also Mrs. Rukmana, presented the
plans to the President.
Friday's presentation was the first on the revised plan. It
has to be approved by the Governor, City Council Speaker M.H.
Ritonga and Minister of Home Affairs Moch. Yogie S.M. before it
becomes official. (ste)