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City administration supports converting Taman Ria into green space
The city's leaders agreed Tuesday to transform the now disused Taman Ria amusement park into a green and open space, backing away from a previous controversial plan to build a shopping mall on the site in Senayan, South Jakarta
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he city's leaders agreed Tuesday to transform the now disused Taman Ria amusement park into a green and open space, backing away from a previous controversial plan to build a shopping mall on the site in Senayan, South Jakarta.
"The city administration realizes that the city needs open and green spaces to reduce the effects of pollution," Governor Fauzi Bowo said Tuesday at a plenary session on the 2010 revised budget.
Green areas currently account for 9.6 percent of Jakarta's total area of 655 square kilometers.
Jakarta failed to meet an earlier spatial planning target to reserve 13.9 percent of the city for green areas.
Reports said that the Jakarta administration would likely establish the same target in its 2030 spatial plan.
Taman Ria area was previously allocated for parliamentary purposes and is managed by the Bung Karno Sports Stadium management board (BP GBK). The nearby House of Representatives had planned to annex the 11.2 hectare amusement park complex into its compound.
Jakarta Building Supervisory Agency stopped construction of the mall and sealed the location soon after Fauzi approved the request, agency head Hari Sasongko said.
His office had previously issued a preliminary permit to lay the mall's foundations and gauge the structural strength of the land, but had not issued a formal building permit, he added.
Developer PT Ariobimo Laguna Perkasa working with the Lippo group devised the plan to transform the Taman Ria complex into a shopping mall.
Acting city secretary Fajar Panjaitan said that Ariobimo Laguna Perkasa might file a lawsuit, adding that the city would be ready to meet any legal challenge.
Senayan is now home to four shopping malls: Plaza Senayan, Senayan City, fX Plaza and Ratu Plaza.
There are more than 70 malls in Jakarta and its satellite cities of Bekasi, Tangerang and Depok, according to the website of the Indonesian Association of Shopping Center Managers.
