PT Ciputra to open Taman Burung estate

JAKARTA (JP): After launching a housing project set in flower gardens, publicly-listed developer PT Citra Development is now planning another next-to-nature site with some 810 birds as its feature, the company's president said yesterday.

Harun Harjadi said the company would build a huge birdcage on a one-hectare plot in the middle of the 20-hectare housing site at Cibubur, East Jakarta, and smaller birdcages would be hung from street lamps.

"The Taman Burung sector, like the Bukit Bunga sector opened last year, is based on our concept of living in a natural environment where people can enjoy flowers blooming and birds singing in their backyards," Harun said.

The chosen birds would be singing types like robins, canaries, parakeets and podang, and those with beautiful feathers such as cockatoos, he said.

"We will place some birds in cages on every block, but not too close to houses as some people might be allergic to bird feathers," he said.

The 564 houses on the site will be sold from Rp 49 million (US$20,417) to Rp 135 million. (04)