Illegal tennis court

JAKARTA (JP): A city councilor urged the city administration yesterday to take stern action against PT Inti Utama Dharma Real Estate developer for its failure to abide by an instruction to demolish a tennis court built illegally in its housing complex in East Jakarta.

Saud Rahman, a member of the City Council's Commission D which oversees development affairs, said that the East Jakarta mayor must not hesitate in reprimanding the developer who has ignored his instruction.

Stern action is needed to give a lesson to the recalcitrant developer, he said.

Saud told reporters that the tennis court, on Jl. Basuki Rachmat in Pondok Bambu subdistrict, East Jakarta, has been built on a greenbelt without any permit.

The developer, he said, has insisted that the tennis court was built to utilize open space in the area.

"The company, however, acknowledges that the tennis court as well as buildings have no building permit," Saud told reporters after speaking by telephone with Irsan Sutandinata, the company's president.

PT Inti Utama Dharma has secured the land use permit No.026/74/VII/I/1985, dated July 17, 1985 to develop a housing complex named Cipinang Indah II in East Jakarta.

In line with the permit, the company is obliged to set up and hand over to city administration some public and social facilities, including a school, parks, roads, gutters as well as a football field, but not tennis courts.

Saud said that the developer has not yet handed over any public facilities to the city administration. (32)