City Hall urged to review agrement on land barter
City Hall urged to review agrement on land barter
JAKARTA (JP): Three political factions at the City Council
have urged the city administration to review its ruilslag (Dutch
term used for land barter agreement) system in an effort to stop
the city from losing any more of its property.
The ruling Golkar faction stated on Thursday that the city
administration should create a visual information system to
control its property.
"An information system is needed to enable the city to easily
control its inventory and to protect its property," said Soegiyo,
a member of the Golkar faction.
A school building and sub-district offices owned by the city
have been demolished by developers to make way for modern
buildings.
The school were torn down even though the developers had not
finished building a new one on an alternate site.
The Armed Forces faction also demanded that the ruilslag
system be replaced with the build-operate-and-transfer scheme in
order to relieve the city's suffering from lost property.
"The most important thing is that the city administration does
not suffer losses from the demolition of its property," Nawadji,
spokesman for the Armed Forces faction, said.
The Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) requested that the city
administration be more strict when implementing the ruilslag
system.
"It is our responsibility to save the city properties. The
governor himself admits the great losses stemming from this
system," Sahala P. Sinaga, a member of PDI faction, said.
The three factions also urged the city administration to
penalize developers who fail to construct projects on designated
plots of land, regardless if they have received the land
appropriation permits or not.
"The city administration's decision to involve many parties in
helping develop the capital city is correct, but it has to impose
stricter penalties on developers who do not fulfill their
obligations," Soegiyo said.
A member of the PDI said that between 1971 and 1994 the city
administration has issued 536 land permits, covering 9,137
hectares of land, for condominiums to office buildings. (yns)