TEMPO.CO, Bandung – Bandung Mayor Ridwan “Emil” Kamil said his administration could not yet forcibly cease the ongoing construction of Kota Summarecon housing complex in Bandung by developer PT Summarecon Agung.
Emil said he could not stop the construction until the Bandung Administration gave a third warning to Summarecon, which so far had received its second warning.
“I don’t want to try to be heroic by tearing down Summarecon whereas they have yet to receive the third warning,” Emil said at D’Palm restaurant on Jl. Lombok, Bandung, West Java, on Tuesday, March 24, 2015.
Emil in the first and second warnings had told Summarecon to halt the construction and immediately complete their permit processing. In the second warning, the mayor gave the developer a week to freeze the project and said he would issue a third warning and seal the elite complex if Summarecon failed to heed the second warning.
Emil said he had had talks on the matter with Summarecon at the Bandung City Hall, in which Summarecon claimed the construction project was only temporary. “Summarecon assumed that constructing model houses did not require a building permit (IMB).”
Earlier reports said Summarecon could not show some required permits when councilors of the Bandung Legislative Council (DPRD) made an impromptu visit to the construction site. The construction took place on a 300-hectare land plot to build some 3,000 houses.
Among the permits Summarecon was bereft of are an IMB, a tree-cutting permit, a billboard permit and a land working permit. According to Tempo’s observation, Summarecon has completed building some model houses, which will sell at Rp1.5-4 billion per unit.
ERSIANA GALIH
