TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
City offices to be torn down for low-cost housing, training center
Due to land shortages, the city administration plans to demolish a number of training centers and office buildings belonging to different agencies to build an integrated training center in Kuningan, South Jakarta and low-cost apartments for squatters relocated from river banks
Change Size
D
ue to land shortages, the city administration plans to demolish a number of training centers and office buildings belonging to different agencies to build an integrated training center in Kuningan, South Jakarta and low-cost apartments for squatters relocated from river banks.
'There will be no more excuses for building training centers [separately] or to hold training somewhere else [out of town],' Deputy Governor Basuki 'Ahok' Tjahaja Purnama said during a presentation meeting at City Hall on Friday.
Ahok said that the integration of training centers would also mean more effective human-resources development planning.
'We can focus on assessing the capacity of our human resources and transferring people to the right posts,' he said.
Buildings to be included in the plan comprise an office of the Social Agency on Jl. Gunung Sahari, Central Jakarta; an office of the Manpower Agency on Jl. Prapatan, Central Jakarta, and a unit office in Cijantung, East Jakarta; a building belonging to the Tourism and Culture Agency on Jl. Kuningan Barat in South Jakarta; a regional library building on Jl. Cikini Raya, Central Jakarta; and office buildings belonging to the Education Agency on Jl. Gatot Subroto in South Jakarta.
The combined area of land that will be made available for low-cost apartments will be more than 30,000 square meters.
The planned new administrative building will be built on a 21,245-square-meter site in Kuningan, South Jakarta, and will have up to 50 floors.
'We should build it to a maximum height because in the future we will need more offices,' Ahok said.
During the meeting, consultant firm PT Arkonin representative Beb D. Rachim presented the first design of the new training center, which will have various facilities, including a sports center, dormitory, guesthouse, yard, an outbound-activities field, a green area, a daycare center, nursery rooms and an evacuation area.
'The parking space can accommodate up to 1,010 cars and 375 motorcycles,' Beb said.
Ahok requested that the building have a space designed to accommodate selected street vendors and an arts hall.
'It's part of our public service. The arts hall can be used by aspiring artists who wish to display their works or to perform without having to pay. Street vendors won't have to pay rent either. It should have a park-and-ride facility too,' Ahok said.
The deputy governor also instructed that offices for high-ranking officials be designed as modestly as possible.
'Don't make them too large or luxurious. A good boss rarely stays in his office because he has to go to a lot of meetings,' he said.
The tender for the project is expected to be opened later this year while construction of the new training center is planned to commence in 2015 and to be completed in 2017.
The city aims to build seven low-cost apartment complexes this year alone to accommodate squatters living on riverbanks across the capital. They will be relocated to make way for heavy equipment to dredge the rivers which have been subject to heavy sedimentation.
