Rules for building underground being formulated: BPN
Rules for building underground being formulated: BPN
JAKARTA (JP): The National Land Agency (BPN) is preparing
regulations on land use and ownership in areas set aside for
underground projects in the city, an official said yesterday.
Minister for Agrarian Affairs/Chairman of BPN Soni Harsono
said the regulations would create a strong legal basis for future
underground project.
Speaking after a seminar on surveying and underground mapping,
Soni said the rules will cover, among other things, land
ownership, land use appropriation and land use planning.
"The rules will set a limit on underground land ownership. It
will also deal with certain rights and obligations for the
prospective underground plot owners."
The conceptual rights of ownership, to be titled Rights for
Underground Plots, will describe how to develop an underground
construction, including the designs, land adjustments and land
preservation.
The regulations will be implemented in a similar manner to
those applicable to apartments.
"In apartments there are certain personal and public
properties. The same thing applies to the new regulations on
underground plots.
"To build a construction under the ground is very complicated.
The condition of the soil, the land above it and below it must
also be seriously considered.
"Therefore, the underground planning project must be 100
percent accurate and cannot be done in a haphazard manner.
Accuracy in the planning is needed to avoid unnecessary
expenses."
Soni said it was time for Jakarta to concentrate on developing
underground areas.
"We must create underground spaces as all the aboveground
sites for economic and social activities have already been
saturated," he said.
Governor Sutiyoso pledged yesterday to start the first
underground project next year at the National Monument (Monas)
park in Central Jakarta.
"The first underground project will be in the form of an
underground parking lot," he said.
Sutiyoso had earlier announced the city's plan to develop
the Monas area into a city park and build several supporting
structures underground, including a station for the light rail
system (LRT) as part of the three-tier transit system, which will
run from Bintaro in South Jakarta to Kota in West Jakarta.
The construction of the underground parking lot will start
next year and is expected to be completed by 1999, while work on
the LRT station will start in 2001.
"In other big cities in the world, such as Tokyo, London and
New York, about 30 percent of their residents run their
activities from underground areas."
Sutiyoso said that thorough underground mapping was badly
needed to organize the underground cable network and the Thamrin
Beautification project.
He also announced his plan to review the overlapping routes of
the planned subway project and three-tier transit project.
"If there are certain overlapping routes, the municipality
will certainly review them in order to obtain efficient routes in
the future," he said.
Yesterday's seminar featured several noted urban planning
experts, including Astawa Rai, Joenil Kahar and T.A. Sanny, all
from the Bandung Institute of Technology.
Exhibitions regarding the survey and underground mapping were
also held, with presentations from related agencies such as the
Jakarta City Planning Agency and Association of the Indonesian
Surveying and Mapping Enterprises. (07)