Illegal tennis court

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)