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)