Duta Pertiwi denies violation

Duta Pertiwi denies violation

JAKARTA (JP): PT Duta Pertiwi, the private builder of the
Roxy Mas International Trade Center project on Jl. KH Hasyim
Ashari, Central Jakarta, has denied having violated any city
regulations.

Muliadi Irawan, a company manager, said on Thursday that his
company has fulfilled all the requirements set by the city
administration.

"We built the project based on the governor's instruction No.
329/1991," he said. The instruction calls for incentives to be
provided to owners of over 4,000 square meters of land to build
high rises and commercial buildings to deal with increasing
shortages of land.

Saud Rachman, a member of the City Council's Commission D,
which oversees development affairs, said on Tuesday that the
developer has built an additional apartment building which was
not included in its land-use permit.

He said that the permit clearly states that the city
administration permitted the developer to use the 80,292-square-
meter plot of land only for a supermarket and office buildings.

The commission will summon the developer in the near future to
discuss the case.

Muliadi, however, argued that the instruction allows a
developer to build apartment buildings even though the land use
permit, which came out before the instruction, was issued for a
supermarket and office buildings.

Muliadi reiterated that his company has completed all of the
requirements, saying: "The Central Jakarta development
supervision agency issued the development permit in May, 1994,
and the use permit in June 1995," Muliadi said. (yns)