TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The company building Indonesia’s first rail-based mass rapid transit system is urging the Jakarta administration to quickly acquire the remaining land for the construction so that it can be completed by 2018.
MRT Jakarta president director Dono Boestami said some parts of the work could be completed ahead of schedule but this would require that all the land that will accommodate the rail network must be acquired as soon as possible.
“Most of the land that still needs to be acquired is located in South Jakarta. This includes some plots in Lebak Bulus,” Dono said in Jakarta on Wednesday, as quoted by Antara News.
He added that if all the required land could be acquired as soon as possible, the MRT system would be ready for use in 2018, before the start of the Asian Games, which Jakarta is likely to host.
“We remind the Jakarta provincial administration to immediately hand over all the required land to us,” the MRT Jakarta president director said.
Meanwhile, also on Wednesday, Jakarta public order officials dismantled 59 more buildings, located on Jl. Raya Fatmawati in South Jakarta, along the planned route of the MRT network.
South Jakarta Mayor Syamsuddin Noor said the dismantling was done after the owners failed to dismantle the buildings themselves, although they were already compensated for that.
“This is a third dismantling the Jakarta administration has done to acquire land for the MRT project,” Syamsuddin said.
“We’ve given them enough time, as we’ve paid the compensation long ago. The MRT project will require the use of these plots of land immediately,” he added.
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