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Private school reports residents in land dispute to police
PT Jakarta Utilitas Propertindo (JUP), a subsidiary of city-owned developer Jakarta Propertindo (Jakpro), plans to build a three-story building for the private Bina Tunas Bangsa (BTB) school on the 3,999-square-meter lot, which Jakpro claims to legally own.
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A banner expresses opposition by residents of Pluit Putri residential complex against a plan to build a school on green open space in their area. (tempo.co/Yusuf Manurung)
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esidents of the Pluit Putri housing complex in Penjaringan, North Jakarta, claim to have been reported to police for protesting against the city’s plan to turn a green space in their residential area into a private school, marking yet another legal dispute over land use in the capital city.
PT Jakarta Utilitas Propertindo (JUP), a subsidiary of city-owned developer Jakarta Propertindo (Jakpro), plans to build a three-story building for the private Bina Tunas Bangsa (BTB) school on the 3,999-square-meter lot, which Jakpro claims to legally own.
In November residents staged a protest by padlocking the main gate to the plot and putting up posters decrying the project and alleging Jakpro and BTB were not transparent in the construction project and that they were taking over a green space that the residents had used for social activities for years.
BTB appear not to have responded positively to the protest. Pluit Putri residents’ lawyer and representative Kurniawan claimed his clients, four Pluit Putri residents, were reported to the North Jakarta Police for alleged trespassing.
However, the status of the plot has yet to be made fully clear as a legal battle still continues between residents under the Taman Pluit Putri Residents Forum and the North Jakarta One Stop Integrated Service Agency (PTSP North Jakarta), which issued a building permit (IMB) for the school construction and confirmed Jakpro's ownership of the land.
JUP has stated it has a valid legal basis to build in addition to ownership status of the plot being granted to Jakpro based on a gubernatorial decree (SK) in 1992.
“The residents only wish for BTB private school to respect the court proceeding, but instead it has replied with a police report,” Kurniawan told The Jakarta Post on Thursday.
