Mayor ordered to get tough with developers
Mayor ordered to get tough with developers
JAKARTA (JP): Jakarta Governor Surjadi Soedirdja ordered North
Jakarta Mayor Suprawito yesterday to get tough with developers
who failed to deliver the required public and social facilities.
"I call on the mayor to take stern action against developers
who refuse to abide by the rules," Surjadi said when inaugurating
luxury apartments in Sunter, North Jakarta.
A 1990 gubernatorial decree stipulates that private developers
must build social and public facilities, such as school
buildings, hospitals, bridges, places of worship and parks, and
transfer their ownership and management to the local
administration.
The administration can impose sanctions against errant
developers, such as refusing to process their building permit
applications. However, the it has rarely taken such a tough
stance, giving developers time to comply.
The City Council estimated last year that 77 developers owed
the administration facilities worth Rp 600 billion (US$200
million).
Surjadi said yesterday that the administration's patience had
run out.
Developers were delaying building and only transferring the
public facilities to the administration in installments, he said.
Such a tactic was at the expense of public services. "The
developers are slowing down the administration's work," he said.
Public and social facilities played an important part in the
city's spatial plan, he said. "They improve the environment
because they also provide larger green areas between the new
buildings," said the governor who ends his five-year term next
month.
Surjadi made his remarks while presiding at the soft opening
of the Cempaka Sunter apartments. The event was attended by the
head of the Jakarta Fire Agency, Suharso, and the head of the
Jakarta Tourism Agency, Fauzi Bowo.
The Cempaka Sunter apartment consists of 60 homes in three
eight-story blocks. Built on a 15,652-square-meter plot, the
apartments cost Rp 8.6 billion and were built in 12 months by PT
Wisata Niaga.
Mayor Suprawito said his office had received 12 public and
social facilities in the area, including hospitals, bridges, a
drainage network and the Sunter Jaya subdistrict office, complete
with the homes for doctors and the subdistrict chief.
The new accommodation was aimed at Indonesian executives and
expatriates, with monthly rents ranging from $1,500 for a 100-
square-meter apartment to $1,750 for a 120-square-meter one,
Kadarman of Sunter Cempaka said.
"We've established cooperation links with Collier Jardine,"
Kadarman said, referring to the well-known property consultancy
company. Fifteen of the 60 apartments have already been occupied.
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