Mayor against court decision on land row
Mayor against court decision on land row
JAKARTA (JP): South Jakarta Mayor Pardjoko said that he will
appeal to the Jakarta High Administrative Court against the
decision of the District State Administrative Court on a land
dispute in Lebak Bulus.
The district court overruled Pardjoko's ruling on a disputed
2,000 square-meter plot of land on Jl. Cireundeu in Lebak Bulus,
and ordered him to pay a fine of Rp 470,000 (US$216).
"I will appeal. I will obey the decision only if a higher
court orders me to," Pardjoko told reporters Wednesday during a
lunch break of a limited leadership meeting held at the City
Hall.
The verdict, a copy of which was made available to The Jakarta
Post, annulled Pardjoko's Aug. 25 ruling which legalized the
appropriation of a 2,000 square-meter plot of land on Jl.
Cireundeu by businessman R.J. Kaptin Adisumarta. He turned the
plot into an entrance way to his 9,000 square meter luxurious
residential complex alongside the Pesanggrahan river.
Dewi Djulaeha, the woman who claims ownership of the 2,000
square meter plot, said on Tuesday that, in the beginning, Kaptin
borrowed the plot to facilitate the construction of the complex.
Last year Kaptin, Dewi said, turned the plot into an entrance
way to the complex without her knowledge and had the South
Jakarta Mayoralty administration legalize it when she and her
family went to Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Dewi demanded that the land be returned to her or that Kaptin
pay her one million rupiah per square meter.
Dewi stated that four of the houses built in the complex don't
have building permits. They also violate city regulations on the
distance buildings can be to a river and the one to five ratio of
building to land she added.
But Pardjoko said that Kaptin had complete and legal building
permits for all the houses he built in the complex, including the
permit for using the 2,000 square meters of land as entrance way.
However, Prawoto S. Danoemihardjo, assistant to the city
administration secretary, said that the construction of the four
houses violated city regulations and hence the municipal
administration will demolish them.
"The riverbank is designated for the development of an
environmental road and therefore it must be clear of any
buildings," Prawoto said. (arf)