Councilors demand delay of `Pavilion Park' project

Councilors demand delay of `Pavilion Park' project

JAKARTA (JP): City councilors have urged the city
administration to stop PT Duta Buana Permai from constructing
the Pavilion Park apartments on Jl. K.H. Mas Mansyur, Central
Jakarta.

"The councilors urged the company to stop the apartment's
construction process because it has not acquired the documents of
asset transfer approval (Berita acara penyerahan aset) from the
city administration," Atje Muljadi, chairman of City Council
Commission E, which oversees people's welfare, said yesterday.

He said that the asset transfer approval is one of the most
important documents which must be acquired by every private
company after the governor approves the land barter agreement, or
known as Ruilsalg, between the city and the company.

"Before issuing such documents the city will check whether or
not the company has fulfilled all its obligations, because
without the documents, private companies cannot start
construction," he said.

Atje said, under the land barter agreement which was approved
by the governor in 1992, PT Duta Buana Permai (PT DBP) has agreed
to provide the city with a 2.5-hectare plot of land in Tanah
Kusir, South Jakarta. This is a substitute for the 2.5-hectare
plot of city cemetery on Jl. K.H. Mas Mansyur, Central Jakarta,
which they took for the construction of Pavilion Park, a posh
apartment complex.

According to Atje, the city is planning to use the land in
Tanah Kusir as a special cemetery where Jakarta's dignitaries
will be buried.

The city has discovered that the land plot provided by PT DBP
is still being disputed by its seven owners.

Summoned

Councilor Edi Sukiswantari Probo, of Commission E, said PT DBP
has failed to fulfill the condition, as stipulated in the land
barter agreement, which requires the company to finance the
construction of a Rp 1 billion (US$458,085) building for the
Cendana Bakti Foundation. The Cendana Bakti Foundation manages
the city morgue, in Petamburan, West Jakarta.

Atje said the city council has summoned the management of PT
DBP.

He also said his commission will be holding a meeting with
some related bodies, including the city's legal bureau, finance
bureau and the city's cemetery office.

Arumdati Wardhani, the Public Relations Manager of PT Duta
Anggada Realty, the holding company of PT DBP, refused to comment
on the warning issued by the city councilors.

"I have to discuss this matter with the company's legal
department first," she said.(mas)