Mayor lifts sanctions against Concord 2000

Mayor lifts sanctions against Concord 2000

JAKARTA (JP): East Jakarta Mayor Sudharsono has lifted the
administrative penalty imposed on PT Quartalintas Sembada, the
developer of the Concord 2000 housing complex in East Jakarta,
after the company signed an agreement with the mayoralty.

Sudharsono told reporters at City Hall yesterday that the
developer had finally agreed to turn over the social and public
facilities at the complex to the city administration, not to
another party.

"The developer has signed an agreement to hand over various
public and social facilities to the city administration within
two years," Sudharsono said.

The agreement was signed on April 21.

Sudharsono explained that the agreement was reached after his
office told the developer that based on its land appropriation
permit it has the obligation to build public facilities in the
housing complexes it constructs and to hand them over to the city
administration.

He added that initially there had been a misunderstanding
between the developer and Perumnas, the state-owned housing
development company. The private developer at first thought that
it was obliged to hand over the facilities to Perumnas.

"The permit declares that the company is obliged to build and
hand over those facilities to the city administration,"
Sudharsono said.

Earlier this month the East Jakarta mayor penalized PT
Quartalintas Sembada by stopping issuance of administrative
permits, including the building and land appropriation
certificates, to the developer.

The developer, now building 200 houses on a 23 hectare plot of
land owned by Perumnas, has an obligation to develop social and
public facilities, such as parks and school buildings on two
hectares of land.

Sudharsono has also threatened that his office would tear down
the developer's marketing office building at the real estate
complex because it was built without an official building permit.

In a related development, North Jakarta Mayor Suprawito
yesterday denied allegations that the number of public and social
facilities to be built by PT Summarecon Agung, a real estate
company based in North Jakarta, was fewer than what had
previously been promised.

"It is only a misunderstanding, the company has developed 19
parks, from the total of 28 required, which are ready to be
turned over to the city," Suprawito told reporters at City Hall.

Last week the company announced that it would hand over 19
parks to the city administration by Aug. 17. This was fewer than
the number announced earlier by Deputy Governor for Governmental
Affairs Idroes.

Idroes has said that the company is obliged to build and hand
over 28 parks by Aug.17, when the nation commemorates the 50th
anniversary of its independence.

Suprawito made it clear that PT Summarecon had finished
developing 19 parks. "The parks will be soon turned over to the
city administration. The remaining nine are still in process," he
said. (yns/31)