TANGERANG: About 1,500 residents from three subdistricts in
TANGERANG: About 1,500 residents from three subdistricts in
the Pinang district of Tangerang municipality staged a violent
rally on Monday at the PT Tifico factory on Jl. Raya Serpong to
demand the company make good on its unfulfilled promises,
including providing jobs for local residents.
H. Suryadi, 55, a resident who lives right behind the factory
in East Panunggangan subdistrict, accused PT Tifico, a large
textile producer established in 1976, of deliberately rejecting
locals for employment at the factory.
He also said that the company had polluted the environment.
Herman, another resident, said that PT Tifico, which employs
more than 3,000 workers, also failed to fulfill its promise to
share project tenders with local businessmen.
The residents began to gather at the factory compound at 9
a.m. Since no one from the company management met them until
11:30, the protesting residents tore down the factory's gate and
forced their way into the compound.
They almost broke into a fight with about 100 police officers
who were deployed at the factory.
Several representatives of the local residents were later
allowed to meet with company management after lunch to discuss
their demands. It began to rain heavily during the meeting, which
caused the protesters to disperse.
The Jakarta Post tried to meet with company spokesman Gatot
Purwanto for confirmation, but security officers on duty said he
was unavailable. -- JP
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Jakpro insists on apartment rental fees
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Jakpro refuses to back down on rent hike
JAKARTA: PT Jakarta Propertindo (Jakpro) reaffirmed that it was
going to raise the rents on its apartments in Pluit, despite
continued protests by tenants.
Jakpro director Ongky Sukasah said on Monday during a hearing
with the City Council that the company had to raise the rent on
its Pluit apartments, which are six-by-six meters in size, or
type 36, by between 50 percent and 70 percent because of new tax
regulations and to cover increasing operational costs.
The rent on a ground floor apartment was increased from Rp
392,000 (approximately US$44) per month to Rp 675,000.
Sukasah said the increases were based on, among other things,
an October 2001 decree from the finance minister stipulating that
type 36 apartments would be subject to a value added tax, as well
as a property tax increase.
Jakpro, which owns 480 type 36 apartments in Pluit,
Penjaringan, North Jakarta, was summoned by the City Council's
Commission D for development affairs after tenants filed a
complaint last month over the rent increase.
Yohanes BD Widjaya, a tenant coordinator, said tenants had
accepted that the rent increases were unavoidable, but would have
preferred the increases to be implemented gradually.--JP
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Man nabbed for taxi robbery
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Taxi driver mugger arrested
TANGERANG: A taxi driver being robbed at knifepoint
deliberately crashed his vehicle into a parked minivan to alert
police on Jl. Daan Mogot, Kebon Kosong subdistrict, Tangerang
municipality, on Sunday evening.
Batu Ceper police chief Adj. Comr. Endro said an angry mob
then attacked the suspect, identified as Hendar, 20, a resident
in Ciamis, West Java, as he tried to rob Alex Sukarno, who was
driving a Kosti Jaya taxi.
Endro said the suspect stopped the taxi on Jl. Daan Mogot and
asked the driver to take him to Tangerang.
"After about 200 meters, the suspect pulled out a knife and
held it to the driver's stomach while ordering him to hand over
his money," he said.
The driver said he had money in his wallet, which he put on
the dash board. As the suspect checked the wallet, the driver saw
an approaching police car and deliberately drove into a public
minivan, jumped out of the vehicle and shouted for help.
Local residents who came to his assistance started beating
Hendar, who had to be rescued by the police. --JP