Developer to be summoned for violation
JAKARTA (JP): The City Council will summon PT Duta Pertiwi, a private developer who is building a supermarket and office buildings on Jl. K.H. Hasyim Ashari, Central Jakarta, for allegedly violating existing regulations.
Saud Rachman, a member of the City Council's Commission D, which oversees development affairs, said that the developer has built an apartment building which is not included in its land use permit.
"The permit clearly states that the city administration has permitted the developer to use the 80,292-square-meter plot of land only for a supermarket and office buildings. But in reality the developer also builds apartments," Saud told reporters yesterday.
Saud said that the deviation was discovered in a meeting between the commission members and executives of the developer to discuss its obligation to provide social and public facilities around the project site.
During the meeting, the developer revealed that apartments are being constructed as an integral part of the supermarket and office building complex.
"This is completely wrong because the permit allows the developer to build only the supermarket and office buildings," he reiterated.
Therefore the commission will summon the developer in the near future to discuss the case.
Saud also said that gubernatorial decree No. 540/1990 is often violated. According to the decree, each developer that builds apartments is obliged to provide 20 percent of the total site and build low-cost apartments on it.
"According to PT Duta Pertiwi's land use permit for the construction of the supermarket and office buildings, the developer is required to provide locations for small-scale traders," Saud said.
Under gubernatorial decree No. 240/1988 developers of commercial buildings such as supermarkets or shopping malls are asked to set aside 20 percent of the commercial area for small- scale traders.
He said that the commission will investigate this matter because the city administration needs private developers to participate in the building of low-cost apartments in the city. (yns)