Recalcitrant developers warned

Recalcitrant developers warned

JAKARTA (JP): Governor Surjadi Soedirdja said that the city
administration would continue to take firm action against
developers who neglected their obligation to build public and
social facilities in each of the housing complexes they
construct.

"The city will continue to take tough action against those
delinquent developers," Surjadi said at City Hall on Wednesday.
He did not give details of the kinds of punishments such
developers would face.

"There is no use revealing everything to the press because our
job is to make sure that the regulation is obeyed," Surjadi said.

In the past the city administration has, on a number of
occasions, temporarily refused to issue new building permits to
the developers, who have failed to build public and social
facilities as required.

Recently, the North Jakarta mayoralty stopped issuing new
building permits to developer PT Summarecon Agung. A few days
later the East Jakarta mayoralty followed North Jakarta's
example, refusing to issue further permits to the developer of
the Concord housing estate.

Surjadi said that he would investigate a claim made by PT
Modernland Realty Ltd that the developer had the right to
appropriate about 47 hectares of land. The company made the claim
in response to a statement made by East Jakarta Mayor Sudarsono,
who said, according to the Jayakarta daily, that PT Modernland
Realty Ltd had the right to appropriate only seven hectares of
land.

Modernland is currently building about 1,400 houses on a
single plot in Cakung, East Jakarta. (yns)