Private company to sue West Jakarta mayoralty

Private company to sue West Jakarta mayoralty

JAKARTA (JP): PT Tiwa Muda Corporation, a private developer,
has threatened to file a lawsuit against the West Jakarta
mayoralty for blocking the issuance of land certificate proposals
advanced by the company.

Director of PT Tiwa Muda Corporation, Iken B.R. Nasution, told
The Jakarta Post yesterday that proposals for the processing of
land certificates for 164 houses in its housing complex in Meruya
Udik, West Jakarta, have been submitted since 1981, but not a
single one has been issued so far.

The mayoralty refuses to process the proposals because it
claims that the housing complex has engulfed part of the
mayoralty's property, he said.

According to the mayoralty, 1.15 hectares of the 5.8-hectare
housing complex, which was built in 1980 and is now inhabited by
employees of PT Unilever, is the mayoralty's property.

Nasution insisted that the housing complex is wholly owned by
Tiwa Muda. He acknowledged that the 1.15-hectare plot of land, on
which 33 houses stand, was previously owned by the West Jakarta
mayoralty, but that is has been sold to his company.

Executives of PT Tiwa Muda, according to Nasution, have tried
to talk with mayoralty officers to solve the lengthy land
dispute, but no deal has yet been reached.

PT Tiwa Muda recently resubmitted the proposals for the
processing of the certificates to the West Jakarta Agrarian
Office, he disclosed. The company is demanding that the agrarian
board issue certificates for the 131 houses in the complex,
excluding the 33 houses located on the disputed land.

If this attempt is blocked by the mayoralty again, PT Tiwa
Muda will bring the case to the Jakarta office of the State
Administrative Court, Nasution said.

"We have to hand over the certificates to all the buyers, who
have paid for their houses in cash," he said He accused the West
Jakarta mayoralty of being inconsistent in the dispute.

West Jakarta Mayor Sutardjianto should talk with executives of
PT Tiwa Muda in person, Nasution said, arguing that it is the
mayor who has the authority to do that.

Meanwhile, an officer said that the West Jakarta mayoralty is
ready to face the company's lawsuit.

"I agree to bring the case to court too," Solihin, the West
Jakarta mayor's assistant of administrative affairs, said. (29)