Regent upset with office project

Regent upset with office project

TANGERANG, West Java (JP): Tangerang Regent Saifullah AR
threatened stern action against the contractor building the
regency's and legislative council's offices Tuesday for being too
slow.

Saifullah said his office would terminate the contract and
give it to another contractor.

"The end of next January is the deadline," he said, adding
that the relocation of the regency's capital might be delayed.

"The developer, PT Panca Wiratama Sakti has been granted the
right to appropriate and develop a 3,000 hectares of land. In
return it is obliged to pay compensation money amounting to Rp 13
billion to the Bekasi administration," he said.

"I didn't want to accept the compensation money in cash. I
asked the developer to build the offices with the money,
instead," Saifullah said.

He said the relocation of the Tangerang Regency's capital was
scheduled to be done by the end of next year. So he hoped the
building of the regency's and legislative council's offices could
be done by the end of January.

Saifullah said if the developer could not meet the deadline,
it would be given the right to develop only 1,000 hectares of the
land it appropriated. (27/sur)