Governor knows nothing about Jonggol project
Governor knows nothing about Jonggol project
JAKARTA (JP): Governor Surjadi Soedirdja said yesterday he had
not been contacted by a group of developers who proposed
relocating the city's administration center to Jonggol, on
Jakarta's outskirts.
"I have not heard any details of the project except from what
I've read in the newspaper," he said after a city administration
social function.
The governor was responding to a report which said a group of
developers, led by President Soeharto's son Bambang Trihatmodjo,
had proposed the relocation of ministries from the capital to
Jonggol about 40km south of Jakarta.
Surjadi said the plan, if implemented, would increase the
ministries' efficiency.
Surjadi also spoke of the need for a single authority to
manage the environment in Jakarta, Bogor, Tangerang and Bekasi.
"At least for Jabotabek, we need one spatial plan and one
authority to manage the environment in the area," he said.
Developers Bambang Trihatmodjo and the Kaestindo Group have
provided a 30,000 hectare-plot in Jonggol as the new location for
governmental agencies.
Jonggol has also been designed for the relocation of the
Senayan sport and recreation centers as well as a mini Safari
park like the one Cipanas, West Java, which houses endangered
animal species.
Citing badly constructed areas in Jakarta, which are prone to
floods during the wet season, Surjadi said developers should take
environmental issues into consideration so Jakarta's environment
does not deteriorate.
Calling on the developers not to pollute and destroy the area
surrounding the project, the governor said the developers should
not plague Jonggol with Jakarta's ills.
Meanwhile, city council speaker, M.H. Ritonga, said he
supported the relocation project because it would help smooth the
operation of the ministries and their related agencies.
"There has even been suggestions to move the capital's
administration to remote Kalimantan," he said, stressing that
moving a capital is common in other countries.
However Ritonga said new developments and projects in the
Bogor, Tangerang, Bekasi areas were quite risky for the
environment unless they were carefully handled.
"Experts have alerted the administration to study new project
proposals in the areas before implementing them," he said.
The Bisnis Indonesia daily reported yesterday the proposal to
relocate the central administration to Jonggol had been presented
to the National Development Planning Board (Bappenas).
Herman Haeruman, a Bappenas official, said although the
proposal had been submitted to his office, it was yet to be
evaluated.
"Studies and evaluation will be made only after the developers
and the West Java provincial government present a more detailed
proposal regarding the plan," the daily quoted Herman as saying.
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