Council tells vehicle tester to obey rules
Council tells vehicle tester to obey rules
JAKARTA (JP): A private company building a vehicle testing station in Jagakarsa, South Jakarta, has been asked by councillors to comply with the city administration's standard construction coefficient (KDB).
Chairman of the City Council's Commission D, in charge of development affairs, Bandjar Marpaung, said that PT Suar Adhika Wahana Ujindo (SAWU) should construct the station in accordance with the requirements set out in its building permit.
"The company has secured the permit, so the center should be built in conformity with the regulations. Please don't violate them," Bandjar said yesterday after a meeting with two private companies which have been appointed by the city administration to open vehicle testing stations.
Bandjar said there was a possibility the center would violate the KDB because the testing station needs a spacious parking place and intends to cement a large area of land.
PT SAWU is building the testing center on a 10,150 square- meter plot of land in Jagakarsa, South Jakarta, which has been declared a water catchment area. It is permitted to use only 20 percent of the total area for the station.
"Therefore, the commission told the company that the area is not large enough for a vehicle testing station," Bandjar said, adding that the company had already asked the municipal administration for permission to enlarge the project site by appropriating a further 10,000 square meters before the end of the year.
In 1993 the city administration appointed two private companies to open vehicle testing stations in Jakarta. They are PT SAWU and PT Nakia Dwipradita. PT Nakia is to establish its station in Kedaung Angke, West Jakarta.
PT SAWU will serve commercial vehicles from Central and South Jakarta while PT Nakia will serve those from West and North Jakarta.
At present, vehicle testing is still carried out only at the two government-owned testing stations in Ujung Menteng and Pulogadung, East Jakarta.
Bandjar said that the commission welcomed the city administration's decision to involve private companies in testing commercial vehicles.
"There is an indication that the two centers owned by the city administration can not test all the commercial vehicles in the city. They can only test about 273,000 vehicles per year, while there are about 500,000 commercial vehicles in the city," he said.
With the construction of two testing stations by the private companies the number of commercial vehicles being tested was expected to increase, Bandjar said, and that the additional testing would mean more revenue for the city coffers.
He said PT SAWU had set a target of testing about 300 vehicles per day, while the target set by PT Nakia was 500 vehicles per day.
He said that the test fees would remain Rp 20,000 (US$9) for a four-wheeled vehicle weighing three tons and above, Rp 18,000 for four-wheeled vehicles under three tons and Rp 16,500 for three- wheelers.
"Out of the fees PT SAWU will contribute Rp 2,500 per vehicle to the city administration, while PT Nakia will contribute Rp 2,750 per vehicle," Banjar said.
He said the amounts of money to be contributed by the two companies were different because their respective investments differed. PT Nakia was building on a 2.3 hectare plot of land belonging to the city administration, he said, while PT SAWU was building on its own land.
The project is being carried out on a build-operate-transfer basis. Both companies will hand over their stations to the city administration after 15 to 20 years of operation.
Bandjar said PT Nakia would commence trial operations in early June, while PT SAWU would open in August.(yns)