Houses unlawfully used as businesses

Houses unlawfully used as businesses

TANGERANG: Many house owners in the Citra Raya residential
complex in Cikupa, Tangerang have illegally turned their property
into business sites.

Many houses there have been turned into stores, home
industries and small factories to produce various goods,
including spare vehicle parts, Zulfikar, one of residents in the
complex said on Wednesday.

However, Zulfikar blamed such violations on the developer for
allowing house owners to run businesses that should be in
industrial zones.

"Houses are places to live, not for selling things
or for producing industrial goods," he said, pointing to a house,
as an example, which had been used for producing purses with over
400 workers daily.

He called on all government agencies concerned to take action
against rampant permit abuses.

The regency's chief of zoning and buildings
Mursan confirmed that many house owners had violated
certain zoning laws by changing the function of their houses into
industrial sites.

"But as of today we can not take action against such
violations since the regency council had not yet endorsed
the supporting bylaws on changes of building functions," he said.
-- JP