Govt to investigate Slipi land dispute
Govt to investigate Slipi land dispute
JAKARTA (JP): Deputy Governor for Government Affairs Idroes said the city administration will investigate a case over disputed compensation money for a plot of land in Slipi, West Jakarta.
"Related agencies such as the city secretary and Jakarta office of the National Land Bureau, will meet to discuss which party is entitled to the compensation," Idroes told reporters on Monday.
Idroes was commenting on a complaint filed by Agus Yanuar Ayub, a resident of the Slipi subdistrict, whose land was appropriated by a developer but compensation was paid to the city administration instead of him.
The developer, PT Centralindo Panca Sakti, appropriated 332 square-meters of land on Jl. GII, RT 008/02 neighborhood unit, in the Slipi subdistrict, owned by Agus. In 1983 part of the land was used to build a road leading to a school.
Agus said the problem began in 1991 when the developer appropriated the land on which the school stood, together with the road. The developer once promised to pay him compensation for the road, but up to now Agus has never received the compensation.
Agus also showed a letter of recommendation from the West Jakarta office of the land agency that states the land is not a city asset and the developer had paid compensation to the city administration.
However, City Spokesman Soesila Darmoadji said that according to a letter from the Minister of Home Affairs, Yogie S. Memet, all streets in the MHT kampung improvement project are city assets, including the road in Slipi.
Therefore, Soesila said, in 1993 Zainal Abidin, then the assistant city secretary for administration and development, appointed the head of city equipment bureau to collect compensation from the developer.
"The amount was Rp 24.1 million compensation for the road construction and Rp 124.05 million for the land. The total amount of Rp 148.17 million had been allocated to the city revenue office," Soesila said.
Agus said he had never sold or donated his land to the city administration as part of the MHT project and claims that he has all the legal papers to prove that the land belongs to him.
Ismunandar, deputy chairman of the City Council, urged Governor Surjadi Soedirdja to investigate the case because there are two conflicting statements from two government offices (the land bureau and city administration).
"The land bureau has stated that the land is not a city asset while the city administration insisted that the road is part of the MHT project," Ismunandar said."Therefore the governor should act to resolve the dispute." (yns)