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Court ruling slows bid to stop Jakarta coastal reclamation
The latest ruling on Aug. 19 voids a previous Supreme Court decision that favored Governor Anies Baswedan's revocation of permits, due to contractual circumstances that the city administration had failed to account for.
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Dredging is carried out on Jakarta's coastal area in the north. The Jakarta administration has been swamped by legal challenges seeking to overturn Governor Anies Baswedan's 2018 decision to revoke reclamation permits for 13 of the 17 islets in the Jakarta Bay. (Antara/Wahyu Putro)
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recent Supreme Court decision to partially grant a case review filed by one of the developers of Jakarta’s artificial islands has dealt another blow for collective efforts to halt unnecessary coastal reclamation in the capital’s north.
The latest twist in the legal battle to stop the development of man-made islets in the Jakarta Bay sees the Supreme Court siding with PT Taman Harapan Indah, a subsidiary of publicly-listed developer PT Intiland Development.
PT Taman Harapan Indah is the developer of islet H, one of 13 islets whose principle permits Governor Anies Baswedan revoked in a 2018 gubernatorial decree.
The latest ruling on Aug. 19 voids a previous Supreme Court decision that favored Anies, due to contractual circumstances that the administration failed to account for.
According to a resumé of ruling No. 84 PK/TUN/2021, which The Jakarta Post obtained from the court, Supreme Court justices ordered the annulment of the 2018 decree as it applies to islet H, but refused the developer’s request to have its reclamation permit extended.
The complete verdict has yet to be officially published.
Responding to the ruling on the case review, Jakarta’s legal bureau chief Yayan Yuhanah said the administration was still waiting to study the full verdict from the Supreme Court. “No comment from us until we have received the full verdict,” Yayan told The Jakarta Post on Wednesday.
