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)