West Jakarta sets up land dispute team
West Jakarta sets up land dispute team
JAKARTA (JP): West Jakarta Mayor Sutardjianto has assigned a
team to handle and settle disputes over two plots of land in
Tegal Alur and Kalideres.
The team, led by the mayor's assistant for administrative
affairs, Solichin, has been assigned to inspect the land and
verify documents.
Solichin explained that land disputes in Tegal Alur and
Kalideres arose in 1970 when the municipality widened Jl.
Latumeten, Jl. Daan Mogot, Jl. Hayam Wuruk, and Jl. Gadjah Mada.
The houses of residents living along the roads were
demolished. The municipality did not pay compensation to them,
but instead gave them plots of land in Tegal Alur and Kalideres.
The city-owned housing developer, PD Pembangunan Sarana Jaya,
provided 260 hectares of land divided into 6,000 parcels at both
locations.
Sutardjianto set up the team after finding fraudulent land
documents held by people illegally occupying the parcels.
Dozens of the occupants of those areas do not have proper land
documents, while a number of holders of the legally certified
documents have been deprived of their rights because the parcels
have been sold to others by an unscrupulous official of PD
Pembangunan Sarana Jaya, Solichin said.
Facilities
Some sites originally allocated for the construction of public
facilities have also been sold by the corrupt official, according
to Solichin.
Solichin would not name the official, but said that the
municipality had fired the man, who is now still at large and
being tracked down by city police.
Solichin also said that more than 500 site documents have not
yet been picked up by their owners.
He stated that people who have the right to occupy the sites
can pick up their documents at the West Jakarta Mayoralty office.
Fajar Panjaitan, head of Kalideres district, acknowledged that
there were still some disputes over the land parcels.
"To avoid more disputes, we have prohibited anyone from taking
over the parcels without letters of recommendation from the
mayoralty and PD Pembangunan Sarana Jaya," he said. (29)