City wants land details of Manggarai project
City wants land details of Manggarai project
JAKARTA (JP): Deputy Governor of Economic and Development
Affairs Tb.M. Rais has urged the consortium building the
Manggarai integrated terminal to immediately present details of
the amount of land it will need to the City Administration.
"Detailed land information is very important because the data
will enable the administration to pass it on to the people in the
area. They are worried whether they will be affected by the
project," Rais said yesterday.
Publicizing the project's land requirements to local residents
should be carried out before the US$285 million construction
project started, he said.
Rais was responding to Minister of Transportation Haryanto
Dhanutirto's remarks last week, saying that the project was
scheduled to start in December.
Haryanto said the project would affect only a limited number
of houses that impinged on the planned elevated roads.
The affected houses mostly belong to employees of the state-
owned railway company, Perumka, he said.
Perumka is one of several state firms supervised by Haryanto's
ministry.
According to Rais, the administration has no objections to the
Manggarai project.
But the administration badly needed detailed information of
the land to be used.
"Residents won't be surprised over land appropriation if we
publicize the project as early as possible," Rais said.
The Manggarai integrated terminal project will change the old
terminal in South Jakarta into a four-story station with 22
tracks, four for underground express trains, and facilities for
intercity buses, minibuses and taxis. It will be surrounded by a
commercial center and apartments.
The terminal project was submitted to President Soeharto in
1994 by the head of the project's consortium, Siti Hardiyanti
Rukmana, Soeharto's eldest daughter.
Officials believe the project will need 124 hectares and
estimate it will affect at least 4,000 residents currently living
in the neighborhood.
Concern
Councilors have already raised concern over the lack of
coordination between the administration and the consortium in
developing the terminal.
They said recently that coordination was necessary to prepare
the city for any problems that might arise, such as protests over
land appropriation or compensation.
Despite being excluded from the city's new revised spatial
plan for 1997-2010, the administration is to allow the consortium
to start the project in December.
"It's possible because the revision of the urban spatial plan
has yet to be completed," Rais said.
The current spatial plans designated Manggarai a bus terminal,
a train station and residential site.
The draft of the new spatial plans was presented to Governor
Surjadi Soedirdja and other city officials in May.
Another project which was not included in the plans was the
three-tier transit system. The system is also scheduled to start
construction in December.
However, two other megaprojects, the US$2.3 billion subway and
the reclamation of the Jakarta Bay, were in the revised plans.
They will need approval from the governor, the City Council's
Speaker and the minister of home affairs before it is officially
used as the guidance for Jakarta's development. (ste/07)