Developers rapped for negligence

Developers rapped for negligence

TANGERANG, West Java (JP): Tangerang Regent Saifulah AR has
lamented the fact that so far, only a few of the developers
operating in the regency have complied with the regulation to
provide plots for public cemeteries.

At present, there are 235 developers building housing and
shopping complexes in the regency. "But so far, only 10 of them
have handed over plots for public cemeteries to the
administration," Saifulah said on Saturday.

He stressed that each developer has to provide a plot for
public cemeteries in connection with the housing complexes they
are building.

"Every developer is required to hand over a plot for a public
cemetery to the local administration, without having to wait for
the completion of the housing complexes they are building. It's a
must, and the developer cannot give money instead of the land,"
Saifulah said here on Tuesday.

He made it clear, however, that the developer is not obliged
to provide all the land at once. "It can be handed over in
phases."

The regent said the size of the plot for the cemetery is 5
percent of the total area of the land on which the housing
complex is being constructed by a developer.

Citing an example, Saifulah said the developer of the Lippo
Karawaci housing and shopping complex has to provide 30 hectares
of land for a public cemetery, 5 percent of the total area of 600
hectares on which the complex will be located.

He said a developer who builds a housing complex on a plot
that is less than 200 hectares could provide a plot for a
cemetery in another nearby area.

The obligation of developers to provide land for a cemetery
adjacent to every housing complex they build was regulated by the
government in 1989. (28/bas/18)