Intercon clarifies confusion on public facilities
Intercon clarifies confusion on public facilities
JAKARTA (JP): Noted businessman Probosutedjo in his capacity
as a member of PT Intercon Enterprise board of directors went to
the city administration yesterday to clarify a misunderstanding
with his company concerning public facilities.
Probosutedjo admitted that his company has failed to hand over
social and public facilities the firm built on its real estate
complex in Kebon Jeruk, West Jakarta, to the city administration.
According to the existing regulation, any developer building
housing estates or other housing projects is required to build a
number of public and social facilities, including roads, parks,
school buildings and places of worship. These facilities have to
be handed over to the city administration as soon as the projects
are completed.
Probosutedjo told reporters after a meeting with the City
Council's Commission D, which is in charge of development, that
the misunderstanding was caused mainly by an absence of
communication between employees of his company and officials of
the city administration.
"Most employees of my company are busy handling field work,
while at the same time it was not easy for the firm's employees
to meet officials of the administration," Probosutedjo said.
For example, when officials of the administration visited the
company's headquarters no one was available because all of them
were in the field. Likewise, when his employees tried to contact
officials of the administration they were out.
Probosutedjo visited the City Council yesterday to explain to
the councilors as to why PT Intercon Enterprise has yet to
fulfill its obligation by handing over social and public
facilities to the administration.
Earlier, West Jakarta Mayor Sutardjianto suspended operational
facilities to six developers, including PT Intercon, for failing
to abide by existing regulations.
The administration has given land appropriation permits to PT
Intercon to appropriate 325 hectares of land in Meruya Udik,
Joglo and Srengseng subdistricts in West Jakarta and in turn the
company is obliged to set aside 20 percent of the area for the
construction of social and public facilities.
Probosutedjo said that the company has actually built several
facilities such as parks, roads and gutters but has not yet
handed them over to the city administration.
He acknowledged that his company has not built schools and
places of worship because there are already a lot of such
facilities in the area.
"Instead of building new and similar facilities, we decided to
contribute funds to renovate existing school buildings and places
of worship," he said.
Probosutedjo, who is also President Soeharto's younger
brother, explained that building facilities that the area already
has would be completely futile.
Meanwhile, the chairman of Commission D, Bandjar Marpaung, who
agreed with Probosutedjo's argument, suggested that the developer
ask permission from the city administration to contribute the
funds to the existing facilities rather than building new ones.
(yns)