Companies misuse permits

Companies misuse permits

TANGERANG: Dozens of companies have misused permits for
farming activities and instead built factories on plots of land
along the Cisadane River, said Suparno, the task executive
coordinator of the Banten Water Resource Management Center
(BPSDA) supervising Cisadane and Cidurian rivers, on Saturday.

The West Java administration issued the permits, which were
for farming activities, to the companies when Tangerang regency
and municipality was still under its jurisdiction.

"Following an instruction from the Ministry of Resettlement
and Regional Infrastructure in 1999 on regional autonomy, the
firms were no longer allowed to extend their permits and use the
land," he said.

Suparno said he had monitored the Cisadane riverbank starting
from Pasar Baru dam and noted that dozens of companies still
continued industrial activities.

"The companies' activities can be categorized as illegal," he
said.

Supano called on the municipal administration to take firm
action against the companies for violating the permits. -- JP