Mayoralty stops issuing permits to 22 developers
Mayoralty stops issuing permits to 22 developers
JAKARTA (JP): The West Jakarta mayoralty has meted out
administrative punishment to 22 real estate developers for not
fulfilling their obligations to build social and public
facilities.
The chairman of the city council's Commission D for
development affairs, Bandjar Marpaung, said yesterday that the
mayoralty has suspended the issuance of any permits needed by the
developers.
The permits include building development permits, zoning plan
permits as well as land certificates, he added.
"This measure will continue to be imposed until the developers
fulfill their obligations which are based on Gubernatorial Decree
No. 540," Bandjar said.
He said the decree stipulates a holder of a land appropriation
permit has the obligation to build and hand over public and
social facilities to the city administration.
The facilities include roads, water ducts, mosques, schools
and parks.
Another member of the commission, Mochammad Rodja, said the
facilities which the companies should build and hand over are
worth billions of rupiah.
For example, Rodja added, PT Metropolitan Development who
controls 62.2 hectares of land in Duri Kosambi subdistrict, West
Jakarta will hand over facilities worth Rp 39.66 billion
(US$17.24 million).
"Therefore, I think the facilities that should be built by the
22 developers are worth billions of rupiah," he said.
The commission held a hearing with the mayoralty yesterday to
learn of the latest development on developers obligations in West
Jakarta.
According to Bandjar, the number is lower than last year, when
the mayoralty penalized 30 developers who failed to fulfill their
obligations.
From 1971 to 1995, the city administration issued 102 land
appropriation permits to developers controlling 2,615 hectares of
land in West Jakarta.
The mayoralty reported that in 1995 a total of 30 developers
handed over facilities worth Rp 336.89 billion.
Officials of the city administration reported to the
commission yesterday that in 1995 there were 238 developers
throughout Jakarta who handed over public and social facilities
worth Rp 784.98 billion.
Bandjar said the municipality should continue to take punitive
action against errant and recalcitrant developers.
However, he urged the administration to issue a stronger
decree than the current one which stipulates that the
administration should be involved in building the facilities to
control their quality.
"I think the main problem is the quality of the facilities.
The city administration should allocate a budget to maintain the
facilities three years after they are handed over," he said.
Bandjar said as the administration faces a problem in
controlling the quality of the facilities, it has appointed a
special agency in charge of checking and controlling the quality
of the building materials used by the developers.
"By involving the agency, the quality of the facilities can be
guaranteed," he said.
Bandjar said the agency has reported that it has rejected many
of the facilities built by the developers because they do not
meet the standard set by the agency. (yns)