Developer sued over land use

Developer sued over land use

JAKARTA (JP): A housing developer is facing two lawsuits in a
land dispute in Meruya Udik, West Jakarta, where it constructed a
housing complex.

The first lawsuit is to be filed by its customers, while the
other will be filed by the West Jakarta Mayoralty.

More than forty customers have complained that they have paid
PT Tiwa Muda Contractor for their houses but have not received
valid certificates for their properties.

PT Tiwa Muda constructed 164 houses for employees of PT
Unilever. They bought the houses under a credit plan through
state-owned bank BTN. Now 42 of them have paid their debts, but
the West Jakarta agrarian office has not issued Tiwa Muda the
certificates because the West Jakarta Mayoralty claims that some
of the land (around 1.1 hectares) used by the developer is its
property.

Executives of the developer say that it has paid its land
compensation to the mayoralty.

To settle the dispute, PT Tiwa Muda and the West Jakarta
Mayoralty have held a series of meetings. At the Aug. 15 deadline
set by the mayoralty, however, both sides had yet to come to
terms.

A West Jakarta mayoralty official said that it is ready to
file a lawsuit against the developer. "I have agreed to bring the
land dispute to court," said Solihin, a West Jakarta Mayor
Assistant in charge of administrative affairs.

The customers have also announced their readiness to file a
lawsuit against the developer. "We are ready to go to court,"
said Sukayat, a representative of the residents.(29)