Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama says he plans to rid the Jakarta administration of corrupt employees who are involved in illegal practices in land acquisition, in cooperation with the National Agrarian Agency (BPN).
"I want to discuss the issue of land acquisition and the relevant regulations. We hope that the acquisition process for land for public facilities will not be burdened with excessive taxes and legal costs," Ahok said at City Hall on Friday.
The governor previously slammed his "naughty" subordinates who offered the administration's uncertified land and assets to private individuals, as happened recently in West Cengkareng, West Jakarta.
A plot of land worth Rp 668 billion (US$50.98 million) that actually belonged to the Jakarta Maritime, Agriculture and Food Security Agency was sold to the Jakarta Housing and Buildings Agency by Toety Noezlar Soekarno, a resident of Bandung, West Java. Toety has even sued the administration because of a payment shortfall.
The situation arose because of maladministration at the BPN. Ahok suspects that corruption among his subordinates and officials in the BPN lay at the root of the case.
Meanwhile, he also accused his subordinates of paying too much to notaries, who recorded the acquisition of land purchased for the administration's projects in the expectation that they would get kickbacks from the notaries. (bbn)
Source: Jakarta to team up with land agency to eliminate graft
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