Kelapa Gading residents sue Sutiyoso

Kelapa Gading residents sue Sutiyoso

JAKARTA: About 70 residents from Kelapa Gading, North Jakarta,
rallied on Tuesday against Governor Sutiyoso's decision to allow
the construction of a sports mall in an area designated to be
used for the development of social facilities.

They made the protest at the Jakarta Administrative Court
building in East Jakarta, which was hearing their lawsuit
demanding the revocation of the gubernatorial decrees on the land
use.

The decrees authorized Yayasan Darma Bakti Mahaka to build the
Kelapa Gading International Basketball Complex on the 26,215
square meter plot of land on Jl. Kelapa Nias, Kelapa Gading.

One of the residents' lawyers, Carrel Ticulau, who also lives
in Kelapa Gading, said the land should be used to build social
facilities for the residents.

They also objected to the construction of the sports complex,
which started earlier this year before the required environmental
impact analysis was made, he said.

On Tuesday, Sutiyoso's lawyer, Alisan Tambunan from the city
administration's legal bureau, told the state administrative
court that there was nothing wrong with the decrees because the
land belonged to the city administration. --JP