Resident complains about compensation

Resident complains about compensation

JAKARTA (JP): Agus Yanuar Ayub, a resident of Slipi
subdistrict in West Jakarta, filed a complaint with the City
Council over unpaid compensation for his land.

Agus told the City Council's Commission A, which is in charge
of government affairs, security and public order, that a
developer, PT Centralindo Panca Sakti, appropriated his land
without paying compensation to him as the owner.

"I have never received any compensation from the company even
though I own the land and I have legal papers to prove it," Agus
said.

He said that in 1983 he permitted local people to use the 332
square-meter land he owned on Jl. GII RT 008/02 in Slipi
subdistrict to build a road leading to a school building adjacent
to the land.

"I bought the land in 1973 and have never sold it," he said,
reiterating that he has all the legal papers to prove that the
land belongs to him.

Agus said that the problem began in 1991 when the developer
appropriated the school together with the road. The developer
once promised to pay him compensation for the road, but up to now
Agus has never received it.

"I learned from the West Jakarta office of the National Land
Agency that the developer paid compensation to the city
administration through an official of the city administration,"
Agus said.

"I don't understand why the developer paid the compensation to
him," he said.

A member of the commission, Romulus Sihombing, said he will
summons the developer and the officer of the municipality to
resolve the matter. (yns)