Three-tier transit system proposed for revised plans
Three-tier transit system proposed for revised plans
JAKARTA (JP): A company planning to build a three-tier transit
system will approach the city administration to try to include
the project in the revised urban spatial plan, the company's
spokesperson said yesterday.
Head of the Citra Group public relations department, M. Fariza
Y. Irawady, said the company would present the plan to the City's
Spatial Agency tomorrow.
The group set up a joint venture, PT Citramoda Margakencana
Persada, to build the Rp 6.05 trillion (US$2.58 billion) project
last month.
After establishing the company Fariza said, "...there are
several stages to be done before the project can be included in
the revised spatial plan."
He was responding to a presentation Friday of the revised
1985/2010 spatial plan which did not include the widely
publicized three-tier transit system.
The system includes an elevated railway with a capacity of
12,000 passengers an hour, connecting Bintaro in South Jakarta to
downtown Kota, West Jakarta.
The company consists of PT Citra Lamtoro Gung Persada -- owned
by Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana -- state railway company Perumka and
the state-owned highway corporation PT Jasa Marga.
Fariza said the company was aware of regulations that the
project should be included in the revised spatial plans before it
could start construction.
The new spatial plans have to be approved by Governor Surjadi
Soedirdja, City Council Speaker M.H. Ritonga and Minister of Home
Affairs Moch. Yogie S.M.
Fariza said the three-tier transit system would be built
according to the initial schedule in December this year.
Construction work is due to start in Bintaro, South Jakarta.
Councilor Lukman F. Mokoginta of Commission D in charge of
development affairs had said revision of the spatial plans would
take a long time. The city would have to take various
considerations into account including the project's effect on its
surroundings, he said.
Lukman also blamed city administration for not including the
project in the revised plans if it considered the proposal
important to the city.
Fariza said the company was now presenting the project to
prospective banks.
"The (banks) will be announced soon after their involvement in
the project is confirmed," he said.
The city's assistant secretary on economic and development
affairs, Prawoto S. Danoemihardjo, said earlier that a team had
been set up to handle land appropriation for the project.
Land appropriation for the project was expected to be
completed in July while the project would be completed by 2001,
he said.
Prawoto said the amount to be paid for land compensation has
not yet been determined, but it would likely be based on the
city-set land value in the area.
Meanwhile, head of the North Jakarta Reclamation
Implementation Board M. Sidharta said the project was ready to
support the area's rapid growth as anticipated in the revised
spatial plan.
"We have completed the project's detailed plan including
construction and reclamation stages," Sidharta said yesterday.
He said the board was still completing the project's regional
environmental impact study.
The plan consists of business, residential, recreational and
tourist attractions stretching 32 kilometers along the Jakarta
Bay, from Pluit in the west to Cilincing in the east. (ste)