Punishment for developers urged
Punishment for developers urged
JAKARTA (JP): Councilors urged the city administration yesterday to take firm action against developers building houses without building permits.
Saud Rachman, member of the Council's Commission D in charge of development affairs, told reporters that the city administration should demolish such houses.
"The regulation says that the city administration will demolish any house built without a building permits. I think the city building and supervision office should be consistent and demolish those houses," Saud said.
He added that the regulation was issued to control houses building. "The rule should be consistently implemented for without any exception."
Saud said if the city building and supervision office does not punish delinquent developers, only the poor will be affected by the regulation.
Ratih Ratna Purnami, also a member of the commission, concurred with Saud, saying that the city administration should punish such developers to deter the others from doing the same.
"It is time to make the developers understand that the city administration can take firm action against them, putting an end to the recent cases of developers harassing the city administration," Ratih said, referring to cases of certain developers that have failed to provide public and social facilities as required.
No permits
A local newspaper reported that hundreds of luxury houses built by PT Palm Estate in Pondok Kelapa subdistrict in East Jakarta have yet to obtain the necessary building permits.
The real estate complex is built on a site belonging to PT Sarana Jaya, a city-owned housing company that plans to build 200 luxury houses.
Pelita daily quoted the supervisor of the project as saying that obtaining building permits is not the developer's business. "It is PT Sarana Jaya's business."
"As a city-owned company, PT Sarana Jaya should have known better and not violated the regulation," Saud commented.
He said the company should have set a good example for other developers to follow suit.
"However, it doesn't matter if it is a city-owned company or not, the regulation should be obeyed," he said.(yns)